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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
.TOPEKATO SPREAD
New Additions Will Be Taken
Into City.
The Metsker and HartsOck
Tracts Are Included.
STOP HEAVY WAGONS
Would Have Six Inch Tires on
10000 Pound Loads.
Water Meter Question Again
Before the Board.

| Topeka is going to increase the
girth of its waistband.
Additions lying to the west and
northeast of the city are to be taken
under ordinances which will come up
for consideration in the council dur
ing the next several weeks.
The additions which it is proposed
to be taken in are: Garfield park, two
blocks bounded by Boswell and Col
1ege avenues, Fourteenth street and
Huntoon, Metsker tract, addition A
to little Russia, Hartsock's subdivi-
sion lying north of West Sixth avenue
and just east of the state asylum
grounds
The above property will Nbe brought
into the city in time to be placed on
the tax rolls of this year. The addi-
tions are not thickly settled, but con-
sist of valuable ground that 1t is be-
lieved should be paying it's Just pro-
portion of city's taxes and not escape
with the small assessment of county
tax. Councilman E. F. Stanley is
back of the movement to take in the
Metsker tract and Hartsock's addition.
The streets and walks committee
last evening instructed the city en-
gineer to draw up an ordinance pro-
viding that wagons carrying loads of
more than 10000 pounds shall be pro-
in width. The maximum is now four
inches. The paved streets are being
ruined by heavy coal wagons with ex-
cessive loads and narrow tires.
1t looks very much as if the judi
ciary committee of the council is go
ing to bring out an embarrassing po-
sition for the board of waterworks on
the question of forcing fiat rate users
of water on to meters. The judiciary
~ NIT ha nd
is delving into it and has instructed
the city attorney to investigate and
report to the committee. Certain
members of the committee have been
opposed all along to the municipal
control of the waterworks plant and
it would look as if these members are
starting out on their own initiative to
poke a stick in hornets nest.
The question of reimbursing James
F. McCabe and w. E.. King, members
of the city engineers department. for
the time lost during their suspension
from office came up before the judi
ciary committee when w. E. King
asked to have a favorable report. Nc
Cabe is now suing in the district court
for his back salary and the committee
deferred action on Kings claim until
the outcome of the suit is learned.
The streets and walks committee
recommended that the one block of
street car track on Hancock street be
torn up. The track has not been used
for several years.
Action to compel the telephone, tel
egraph and electric light companies to
take down their poles and place all
wires underground was deferred.
The city engineer was instructed to
repair Central avenue bridge and also
had referred to him the petition to
vacate alley bounded by Tenth, Elev-
enth, Madison and Jefferson streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
ARREST JUDGES WIFE.
The Neighbors Don't Like Her Style
of Religion.

Des Moines, Ia, June 1S.-Mrs. Scott
NJ. Ladd, wife of Justice Ladd of the
Iowa supreme court, was arrested here
last night for disturbing the peace at
the peculiar religious services over
which she presides.
At the religious services which Mrs.
Ladd has been conducting the devOtees
writhe on the floor like epileptics, leap
into the air, chatter, scream, gnash
their teeth or beat themselves over the
head
Staid religious circles of Des Moines,
have been profoundly shocked by the
revelations concerning this peculiar re-
ligion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
LOOK INTO HITE CASE.
Topeka People Summoned to Give
Evidence in Disbarment Case.

D. r. Hite. a Topeka attorney. will
have his professional record examin-
ed into at the Uncle Sam Oil COM
pany's trial in the United States cir
cult court at Leavenworth.
Judge Amidon, who is sitting, has
summoned w. r. Hazen, ]. G. Wat
ers and r. L. Thomas, clerk of the
district court. to appear at Leaven-
worth for examination into the dis
barment proceedings which were in
stituted against Hite several years ago
and which have remained pending.
r. L. Thomas, clerk, has been in
structed to bring all of the records
relating to the disbarment proceed
ings into court.
Subpoenas were issued for the three
men today and were served by Clar-
ence Keller. deputy United States
marshal
An attempt was made to lay bare
the charges against D. r. Hite as to
breach of professional ethics in yes
terday's proceedings of the Uncle Sam
Oil company. but Judge Amidon ruled
Since then he has had occasion to
change his mind and D. R. Hite's pro-
fessionaI record will have a further
airing.
charges of fraud against the Uncle
Sam Oil company and H. H. Tucker,
jr., is now getting back at Hite. H. ].
Bone United States district attorney,
was busy with the tag enQS OF the
Western Kansas land fraud cases
when the Uncle Sam Oil company
case developed and employed Hite to
aid him in securing evidence against
Tucker.
The charges on which the disbar-
ment proceedings were brought
against Hite were numerous all in
intended to show how he had broken
faith with his various clients and con-
spired to make large sums of money
out of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18

James MCFARLAND of the Pinkerton
agency, who developed the case of con-
spiracy to murder former Governor
Steunenberg against officials of the
Western Federation of Miners, will go
to Boise to testify for the defense in
the Haywood case. During the strike
riots in Cripple Creek, MCFARLAND, who
is shoe maker. was deported from the
district along with the train. load of un-
ion miners and sympathizers who were
taken over the line into Kansas. A
telegram was received from Clarence
Darrow summoning MCFARLAND to Boise
and he arranged to leave at once.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
WILL PAY LESS.
Private Car Line Companies
Have Taxes Reduced.
The Valuation is Smaller Than
Last Year.
HAVE FEWER CARS.
Average Tax Rate in State Is
Also Lower.
Tank Line Cars Will Pay a
Little More.
AVE FEWER CARS.

Private car line companies operat-
ing in the state of Kansas will pay
$472.23 less tax to the state this year
than they paid last year. The total
valuation OF the private cars assigned
to Kansas has decreased from $2S4,-
3S1 to $2S2.6S3, and the total number
of cars from 1.O27.93 to 95O.59.
The decrease in the number of cars
returned by the private car COM
panies is the cause for the decrease in
the total valuation. while there is a
further decrease in the total taxes to
be collected from the fact that the
average tax rate of the state is lower
this year than it was last. The valua-
ton per car fixed by the state board
of railroad assessors was the same in
most instances, but somewhat higher
in others. The valuation of the Union
Tank line cars was increased from
$3.50 to $500 per car.
The following is the table showing
the number of cars assigned to KAN
sas by each private car company, the
total valuation, and the tax to be col
lected:
Cars. Value. Tax.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
NONE LEFT TO TELL HOW
Five Men in a Powder Factory Blown
to Pieces.

Williamsport, Pa, June 1s.-Five
men were killed in an explosion of the
Gelatine department of the Stnnema-
honing Powder Manufacturing COM
pany at Sinnemahoning today.
The dead.
BILL MEY ERS, Summers.
EDWARD COLE.
J. B. NELSON.
HARRY COLE.
SAMUEL SHADMAN.
Only fragments of the bodies were
found. As all the men in the build
ing were killed it is not possible to
ascertain the cause of the explosion.
Two men at work nearby were in
jured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
Jurv system for Japan.

Washington, June 18.-After spend
ing several days in Washington inves-
tigating the American judicial system
with the view of introducing the jury
system of this country in Japan, NJ.
Takagi, a prominent lawyer has gone
to New York and today will sail for
London While in Washington NJ.
Takagi conferred with Chief Justice
Fuller of the supreme court of the
United States and Attorr ! General
Bonaparte.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
HER NAME WRITTEN THERE.
Arkansas Girls Note in Strawberry
Crate Leads to Marriage.

Wichita, Kan, June 1S.-A romance
which had it's beginning when the
name of Miss Leila Miesner, of Rogers,
Ark, was written on a strawberry
crate shipped here last spring, culmin-
mated in the marriage, in Arkansas. OF
A. E. johnson and the young woman
yesterday.
Johnson is a mail carrier at the
postoffice, and was formerly clerk in
a grocery store where he first saw
the name of his bride. They arrived
today and will live here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
FOUR WOMEN PERISH.
In Vain Attempt to Save Life of a
Drowning Boy.

Seattle, Wash, June 1S.-Five per-
sons, two sisters, a brother, mother
and aunt, perished at Monohan in
the waters of Lake Sammamish, yes
terday.
The dead:
ANTOINE MYER, 13 years.
LIZZIE MYER, sister.
IDA MYER, sister.
MRS. MYER, mother.
MRS. JOHN HERTER, sister. of
Mrs. Myer.
The four women lost their lives in
q vain attempt to save the boy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
SCHMITZ. HELD CLOSE.
The Court Keeps a Firm Grip on
FTisco'S Mayor.

San Francisco. June 1S.-Mayor
Schmitz was given permission by
Judge Iawlor this morning to pay an
other visit to the offices of his attor-
neys today, but failed in his effort to
have the court extend the scope OF the
a absence from the county Jail so as to
permit him to attend to other than
private business.
The application recited that the
district attorney is seeking to usurp
his office and it is necessary for MIN
to take steps to prevent 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
Former Kansan Drowned.

Colorado Springs. Colo. June ia
telegram from Venice, Cal, states that
Herbert G. Laing, a prominent attorney
of this city was drowned while bathing
in the surf at Ocean Park. Mr. Laing
has practiced law here for the past 10
years. coming to Colorado Springs from
Kansas. He was a candidate for city
attorney before the last city Republi-
can convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
TO HEAR BOTH SIDES.
Labor Commissioner Will Then Report
to President Roosevelt.

New York, June 1S.-Charles P.
NeiIl, United States labor commits
sioner, is expected to arrive in New
York from Washington today to in
vestigate the threatened strike of
telegraphers against the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph COM
panies. 1t is stated that Mr.. Neill will
hear both sides of the controversy and
then report to President Roosevelt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
jealousy Costs Two Lives.

Washington, June 1S.-Thomas
johnson, negro, employed as a clerk in
the department of agriculture, early
today shot and fatally wounded Jennie
Washington, a II year old negro girl
and then committed suicide. Jealousy
was the cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-18
Wentiler IndicntIons.

Chicago, June 1S.-Forecast for Kan
sss: Partly cloudy and cooler tonight
with showers in east portion; We'd
nes0ay fair.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
Boston Stock Quotations.

Reported over private wires of Horn- blower & Weeks. members of the rew York and Boston Stock Ex- changes, New Haven office, 27 Center street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
SHEEP CONQUER WOLVES.

"The Alaskan gray wolves travel in pairs and never attack a man unless they are famished,' said Harry E. Lee. "The black Siberian wolves generally travel in packs of thirty or forty with one leader that utters sharp piercing yelps, and all the others in the herd keep silent.
 T saw most interesting contest while on the Kenio peninsula between pack of seven Siberian wolves and two white sheep. was completely astounded to see these apparently de- fenceless sheep come out victorious over their seven opponents. It was such a remarkable thing that later took company of hunters to the spot and showed them the carcasses of the wolves.
 These sheep keep to the mountains. Whenever they do wander to the timber they are easily the prey of the wolves. But on the steep cliffs and rugged paths they have an advantage that they know.
 q was travelling up a canon one day, and on the opposite side about a quarter of a mile away. I saw to magnificent specimens of the white sheep rushing up the ravine, leaping from point to point, until they finally stopped in little cove on ledge, to reach which it was necessary to pass around narrow path just wide enough for one animal at time. The cove in which they stopped was eight or ten feet broad.
 "I watched their actions with deep interest, and saw them back up close ly against the wall of rock with their heads lowered toward the narrow path
 Soon there came the yelp of the black wolf and pack of seven of these animals up the narrow path As soon as the first one bounded from the path to the little tableland, Diff one of the sheep butted him over the cliff: then came another and the charge was repeated; and still another with the sheep bringing his battery to work in great style until actually all seven of the wolves lay at the foot of the great cliff
 T could scarcely believe my eyes. It was about the cleverest thing I ever saw in fights among animals. Both sheep cautiously moved to the edge of the cliff, looked down on the wolves below and then leisurely turned back and began to browse on some roots that hung from the rocks that had sheltered them. "-Los Angeles Times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
WAN

At Smithvllle wolves are disporting themselves in larger packs than ever before in the knowledge of Saskatche- wan settlers. The frost has set them in a state of starvation and they are unusually fierce.
 James Jackson was lately driving with his team and sleigh some dis tance from home when band of wolves surrounded the sleigh and horses, and he was sure that the team and himself would be devoured. His only plan lay in suddenly swerving the horses off the trail out onto the prairie at one side, He got clear of the animals. Then he galloped them and got back on the trail and hasten ed home. The wolves followed, but were outstripped by the horses.
 In another part of Smithville on last Friday night the people in a house heard a great bowling of many wolves near their home, which continued for some hours. Next morning they found that the fierce animals had been att tacking a bunch of horses. They had singled one horse out of the bunch and driven him where the snow was deepest, had encircled and killed him and by morning had almost entirely levoured him.-Saskatoon cores pondence Regina Standard.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
MONTANA WOLF DRIVE.

North Montana Is organizing wolf hunt in sheer self-defence. The hunt will be organized In this city and will be conducted much on the order of the rabbit drives in Kansas all the stock mems associations, besides individual hunters joining in the chase. Not for many years have the wolves been so numerous or so rapaeious as they are upon the range this year even ventur- ing into the enviorous of Havre. James Potter this week was forced to beat back a pack of eleven of the var hints when within sight of the city.
 Havre stockgrowers as a result have organized an association which established schedule of bounties for individual hunters, offering $2O head for the scalps of female wolves, $10 a head for the scalp of male wolves and $2 @ head for The scalps of pus; the pitt will remain in the ownership of the slayer.
 The established State bounty will add to the recompense of the hunter BIO head for both male and female wolves and $9 a head for pups Wolf CTS in Chouteau, Valley and Teton counties have an evident harvest be- fore them. It is on record among the wolf bounty commissioners reports in Havre that hunters have made in- dividually more than $2,9OO in a season from the former established reward- Havere correspondence St. Paul Pion- ger Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
LOCAL SECURITIES.

Quotations received from Kimberly Root & Day. Investment Brokers, l33 Orange street. New Haven, Conn:
 Par. Bid Asked.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL COURIER MONDAY FEBRUARY

TRICKS or THE PARIS BBGGAR.
 This city is the, happy hunting ground of the beggar, and especially at the New Year. He stops you at eva;V corner of the 3tre9r:. hc tries to hand you out of your cal: age the moment you stop before shop or restaurant. It is partly the influence of the season, but 1t is an evil that is always with us more or less. Some have quite ingenious tricks to tempt the pity of the passer by.
 One lady, who is we'll known, de- clares every evening at the Care St. Lazare to any sympathetic looking stranger that she is a governers, and has lost her purse, and would the kind gentleman lend her thirty cen times. And be pleased to give me your card she adds "so that l may return the money" The ruse general ly succeeds, but the mendicant has never been known to take the omni- bus, except at the close of a profitable evening, when she has probably victi- mixed a dozen good natured persons. Another woman who plies her singular industry in the Place de la Concorde, addresses herself exclusively to her own sex As result, she obtains as much as five or ten frans from kindly matrons who are touched by her story
 At the New Year the usual crop of begggars is So immensely increased that one supposes that the compara- lively well off must descend into the street to try their luck. No doubt it is a mesier that has it's fascinations especially if it be but temporary Paris Mail Gazette.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04

a still lower range of quotations before the movement eliminates.
 W. Watts Bagley, of W. Watts Bag ley & Co.,: In my opinion the move- ment which started in coppers two weeks ago, but which was interrupted for a few days owing to the failure of several large interests to come to sat- isfactory agreement over the prices of the stocks, which were to be formed into a large company in the Lake Su- perior. region, is again in full swing, and I look for very active market and much higher prices in the next six ty days.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
Miscellaneous Bonds.

Bid Asked. Adams Express As, 1947. 1o2 1O8 Boston Elec 6s, 1908. ...... 1OS Branford l.. & w. 5s, 1887. 110 Inter. Silver deb 8s. 1939.. 90 9f
 do 1st 6s, 1S4S, .,,.., 107A 1OSA \ MI I Ss;ss as; ?'@ ;ss 4 .! i'Sj:5 |Si55 fi5 i5 N H. City Park 3hs.. 94 N H. City Park 3As,,.".. 94 =. N H Sewer As, 191f....... 100 N II. City Bridge 315s. .. 100 N. L. Gas & E. 1st 5s, 927 104 IN7 New Mil Water per 19S2,. .. l05K N. L. Gas. 5s. 1928. ....,.. 101 g. N E. Tel 5s, 194S. 1f4 Swift & Co.,, 5s, 1914.... 1O1 l02 United III, 4s, 1940,......, :. 97 'Ex-interest.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04

Boston, Feb. 2, 1907. High. Low Bid, Aasked
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04

The Johnson guarantee is what se- cures you. It is as good as any gilt edged stock You can depend on it, Great sale to-day and Tuesday. Any winter overcoat $10.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
AhW FORK STOCK MARKLT.

Reported over private wires of Prince x Which, members of the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges, New York office 52 Broadway and 15 Center street New Haven Conn.
 New York, Feb. 2, 1907.
 High. Low Bid. Asked,
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Closing Prices.

Reported over private wires of Prince & Whitely, members of the New York and Boston Stock Exchanges, New York office b2 Broadway and i5 Center street New Haven. Conn.
 New York, Feb. ?, 1907.
 Bid. Masked,
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-05-31
Railroad Excursion Rates.

Teachers excursion rates to Portland
aud Spokane; rate from Montpelier
1910. Date of sale May 81 to 30, June
3, I, II and IA. Final limit Sept. 3Oth,
1907.
Teachers excursion rates east, to Ger
tain points only, which will be fur.
nished upon application at ticket Office
Dates of sale May 81 to 30, June g. Z II
and IA. Transit limits 10 days in each
direction. Final limit Oct. 3lst, 1907
National electic medical association
at Los Angeles June IS to 81. From
Montpelier via Ogden g. Southern Pa
cific $48.45: via Portland and Ogden
$57. 40. Date of sale June . to 10 IN
elusive. Final limit Aug. Slst. 1907.
A. B. MATTsoN, Agent.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-05-31
Special Delivery Stamps.

No special delivery postage stamps
will be needed after July l to insure
the immediate delivery OF letter.
Pursuant to an act of the last session
of Congress, Postmaster-General Meyer
has issued an order that on and after
July /, if there is attached to any
letter or package Of mail matter, ten
cents worth Of stamps Of any denomi-
nation, with the words special de
livery" written or printed on the en-
velope or covering. in addition to the
postage required for ordinary delivery
the article will be handled as II it were
a regulation special delivery stamp.
The postmaster-gen has decided
also in the interests of expediting special
delivery to recommend to Congress al
enactment to the present law whereby
such letters may be left at their des
tination without procuring receipts IL
all cases. Until Congress- can act
broader construction of the presen
law will be given. so that receipt vii
be accepted of anyone occupying tn
premises to whom ordinary mail Nigh
be given.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-05-31

,e much stronger and more durable
han the style now used. and that IN
"a, Of wreck there will lie little danger
Df the coaches te'escoping each other. |
The car will haye small pa|sageway
by which pas 'ergers may go from one
coach to another. but this will be 80
arranged that it wall not weaken the
end walls of the car.
Another feature of this unique coacn
is the use of round instead OF square
windows. They will be somewhat
smaller than the square Ii hts, but less
liable to destruction by accident a
new patent ventilator, which is being
used BY the Union Pacific on its moto
J cars. will be placed on the new coaeh
. aud the car will present an appearance
!. 20 little in common with the ordlnar
i coach that In will at first hardly Q
4 recognized as passenger vehicle.
: The new coach ia being constructe
, at the shops of the company in Oman
It and will be placed in service in apo'
b so days.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-05-31
Relief from Rbeumqtic Poins.

81 suffered with rheumatism for over
two years." says Mr.. ROLAND Curry'a
patrolman, of Key West, Fla. "S"me.
times 1t settled in my knees and lamed
me SO I could hardly walk, at other
times 1t would be in my feet and hhnos
so was incapacitated for duty. one
night when 1 was in severe pain ana
lame from 1t my wife went to the drug
store here and came back with a bottle
OF Chamberlain's Pain Balm. was
rubbed with it and found the pain ma"
nearly gone during the night. kept on
us,ng II for a little more than two weeks
and found that it drove the rheumatism
away. have not had any trouble IRON
that disease for over three months.
For sale by Ritter Bros. Drug Store.