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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
LINCOLN Is o. X.
willard Lyons Says There's No Crop
Failure There.

Willard Lyons of Lincoln county
was in Topeka today on his way home
from Holton, where he closed a deal
for the sale of a $4,000 farm. Mr..
Lyons is a member of the state text
book commission.
There is no sign of crop failure in
Lincoln county, said Mr.. Lyons, who
is in the real estate and farming bust
ness, and knows thoroughly the condi-
lions. I'VE will raise as much wheat
in the county as we did last year
Some fields will run 20 bushels to the
acre, and the average wifi be IL bush
els. Prices will be higher than last
year, and the county will have plenty
of money. Corn, too, is looking much
better there than it is down here. We
are going to have a fine corn crop.
Take it all together, the farmers are
feeling good. and everybody is pros
porous.
"Our only trouble is to get enough
men to handle the wheat. 1t takes
about seven men to handle a good
sized wheat field. Farmers would take
eight or ten If they could get them.
The wheat this year ripened very
quickly after a wet speell, and the re-
suit is that 1t skaters easily, and the
grains of wheat come out of the hulls.
There isn't much political talk with
US. In my opinion. w. r. Stubs is
gaining strength as a candidate for
governor. I have thought that he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
DEATH LISTS So.
Number of Injured Exceeds Inde-
pendence Day Record of 8 Years.

Chicago, July with the grim re-
turns still coming in. the number of
fourth Of July casualties for 1907 al
ready, at O'Clock this morning, had
eclipsed all records made by the Tri-
bune in the last nine years.
The total number of dead at that
hour was SO. This figure was eight
more than a year ago at the same
hour and was only equalled twice be-
fore in the nine years-1900 and 1905.
The total number of injured at
midnight stood at 1907. This total
eclipses all records in the nine years.
The highest number heretofore re-
ported at a. m. of July was 3,683
in 1893.
AS usual. fire works claimed the
largest number of victims, 724. The
victims of cannon, gunpowder. fire
arms and toy pistols are in relative
proportion.
The death roll promises to mount
higher as the days go by. Already te
tanus is beginning its deadly work,
the death of one victim from lockjaw
being reported.
New York, which on Thursday
headed the death roster, added
another victim to its total yesterday,
bringing the number up to eleven. But
even with the increase Pittsburg pass
ed the big metropolis in the grim roll
reporting twelve deaths up to o'clock
this morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
WORLDS BIGGEST PLAYGROUND.
Jersey City to Have One Containing
Slxty-Nine Acres.

New York. July 6.-Jersey City is to
have the largest play ground in the
world. It will be about six times as
large again as the great Stadium at
Athens and more than half as large
again as the famous parade ground
adjoining Prospect Park, Brooklyn,
which has 20 baseball diamonds, IL
cricket fields, and scores of tennis
courts and lawns for various other
games.
The site of the new play ground is
about SO acres in extent and as level
as a floor. 1t is now unoccupied land
on the Hackensack Meadows west of
the city and bordering on the Hacken-
sack river.
Along the rivers edge will be an i'm
mense swimming pool, recreation piers,
refectories and broad esplanade. Base
ball fields, golf links, tennis courts and
cricket grounds will be laid out on the
main ground and there will be a great
central field house, where all players
may make ready for the games. In
the winter there will be an immense
skating rink free to all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
DALTON IS FREE MAN.
Last Survivor of Notorious Bandit
Brothers Given Parole.

After a long conference with War
den Haskell of the state penitentiary
on Friday afternoon, Governor Hoch
granted a parole for four months to
Emmett Dalton, the noted bandit, to
go to Kansas City and have his arm
treated.
1t is generally believed that at the
end of the four months, Dalton's pa
role will be extended. and the chances
are that he will never again go be-
hind the prison walls.
Dalton assisted in the raid on the
Coffeyville bank, at the time three of
the outlaws were killed. Emmett was
shot in the arm and captured. The
wound in his arm has given him con-
siderable trouble and recently has be-
come SO serious that the prison doc
tors said there was danger of him be-
ing obliged to have the arm amputat-
ed BY having an operation of a diff
ficult nature performed, it is said the
arm can be saved.
Just why it is necessary that Dali
ton should go to Kansas City to have
the operation, instead of bringing the
surgeon to the prison, has not been
explained; but the probable reason is
that allowing Dalton a temporary pa
role, the public mind will be prepar-
ed for a final parole and ultimate re-
lease.
The reason urged for Dalton's abso-
lutte release from prison is that he was
a very young man at the time of the
Coffeyville affair, and 1t is claimed
that he was led into the plot by his
older and more desperate brothers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
NEED 5000 OPERATORS.
Railroads of the Country Are Facing
a Serious Problem.

Chicago. July 6.-The Record-Herald
today says:
Several thousand young men who are
willing to prepare themselves can have
an opportunity during the next few
months of entering the railway service
in a branch that has produced the
greatest number of higher officials.
The railroads Of the country are face
to face with the task of securing at
least 5000 telegraph operators and pos
sibly double that number during the
next nine months. This great army of
new telegraphers is necessitated by the
new law which limits the hours of la
Dor in this branch of the railway ser
vice.
There is not railway management in
the United States that knows where or
how they are going to get the large
additional force needed. The fact is
that they are not in the country and
the problem is to create a supply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
Oakland GOSSIP |
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b. Sf5Sl 6!II5GIJlIIISEEaknahlAi

The male chorus with their families
picnicked with Mr.. Cottle's family.
Miss Carrie Taylor has gone to Col
orado to visit her uncle and family.
Mr.. H. V. Clayton's mother and two
brothers of Great Bend. Kan, are WIS.,
iting with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Soule and Mr.
and Mrs. H. V. Clayton spent the
Fourth at Lecompton.
Judging from the number of picnic
parties, there were not many people
left in Oakland Thursday.
Rev. and Mrs. r. A. Whittlesey spent
the Fourth of July afternoon with w.
A. Parks and family of North Topeka
Mr.. B. p. williams, who has been
sick the past two weeks, does not i'm
prove rapidly. His condition is con-
sidered quite serious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
MOTHER FLORENCE MEMORIAL
Work of Raising $4,000 Fund to
Commence in Earnest Monday.

Captain Charles w. Roshon, who is
at the head of the committee which is
raising funds for the erection OF a
Salvation army barracks in memory of
Mother Florence. will commence an
active campaign Monday, as it neces-
sary to make another payment on the
lots which have been purchased at the
corner of Fifth and Quincy streets.
The building which will cost SIS, 900
is to be modelled after similar struc-
ture recently completed in Wichita.
About one-tenth of the sum required
has already been raised and $500 more
has been pledged; 1927 of. the $1,000
collected came in last week during the
heat of the campaign for funds for
Washburn college. I'VE have given
way to Washburn college in their eff
forts to raise money to secure their
endowment" said Captain Rosh on,
land find that they have swept the
city clean, but we hope to receive lib
eral support from the merchants as
well as the private citizens.
I'VE do not expect to receive as
large donations as have been made to
other enterprises. but hope by adding
the Titles together to have the fund
in such shape that we can start work
on the building some time this fall so
that the army can have the use of 1T
this winter. We have another pay
ment to make on the lots the goth of
this month and then we will begin in
creasing our building fund"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
MARS IS NEAR.
Separated From Earth by But 3S, 0OO,-
900 Miles of Space.

New York. July 6.-Mars is nearer
to earth than it has been in many
years-only a trifie of 100000 miles
in fact-and astronomers the world
over tonight will have trained on the
planet all the improved telescope,
stereoscopic and Photographic appar-
atus known to science.
1t may be that July 6, 1907, will
give to the earth's people their first
formal Introduction to the Martians,
those creatures of romance and i'm
agination. 1t may be that we shall get
positive Photographic evidence of en-
gineering work that will make child's
play of the Pennsylvania and Belmont
tubes and other undertakings that to
us are gigantic.
Special preparations have been
made at all the important American
observatories for the work of tonight
and whether or not the great myster-
les of Mars are Illuminated, it is be-
lieved that much valuable data will be
gathered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06

dy's.
Mrs. o. Clarke of 1929 Lawrence
street is sick.
Mrs. Martha Zerbe spent the day
with her daughter Mrs. Mitchell Thurs
day.
Mr.. j. S. Davis of La Junta, Col,
arrived here yesterday to remain per-
manentIy.
Mrs. E. H. Starum of 12s North
Lake street, who has been seriously i'll,
is slowly improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ton Irish, Seventh
and Morris streets. are the parents OF
a son born this morning.
Special for Monday only: 10 yds. of
&c Lawn, 40c; 10 yds. of &c Calico, soc;
10 yds. of sc Muslin, soc. At Purdy's.
Miss Lottie Harkins spent the
Fourth with her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. B. F. Mitchell of 3O2 Kline
street.
The c. w. B. M. society held their
monthly meeting at the Third Chris
tan church yesterday afternoon. A
large crowd was present.
The Rebekah society will have to
move on account of the Medical col
lege purchasing their building and
think they will occupy the G. A. R.
hall.
The funeral services of little Thelma
w Will NC ACAQ tomorrow AFTERNOON
at o'clock from the home of her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Webb of 623
Lime street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Griley and
FAMILY of 334 Hancock street left to-
day for an extended visit in the west.
They will visit in San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Seattle, Washington, and re-
turn home by the way of Niagara Falls
and GAINESVILLE, o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Haney of Pueblo,
Col, who have been visiting relatives
in Eskridge for the past few weeks
and who intended to spend the Fourth
with Mr.. Haney's sister, Mrs. A. A.
Adafr and family, could not come on
account of Mrs. Haney taking very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Yard Of 3O4 Bran
ner street, entertained last evening for
the following guests: Mr.. and Mrs. v.
e. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Tracy,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Laird, Mr. and
Mrs. o. D. johnson, Mrs. C A Pardee,
Mrs Mary Norwood and Mrs. Bessie
Christian. The evening was spent in
conversation and music. Ice cream and
cake was served as light refreshments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
LITTLE LEFT TO TELL.
Haywood Trial Has Been Adjourned
Until Next Monday.

Boise. July 6.-When court met af-
ter recess in the Haywood trial Friday
afternoon John Harper was on the
stand. Mr.. Richardson said that he
desired to show by the witness that the
conditions existing throughout the en-
tire district, namely, that the enemies
of the Western Federation persistently
endeavored to create enmity against
the federation and so bring about dis
turbances.
The court sustained an objection by
the state to this line OF evidence from
Harper on the ground that his opinion
was not competent. Harper was cross
examined by Senator Borah. He was
asked only a few questions as to his
experiences during the troubles fol-
lowing the blowing up of the indie
pendence depot. when he was under
arrest and his store looted.
J. Wolfe was recalled and said that
the registered letter he sent to San
Francisco was addressed to ~. Demp-
sew" and so far as he knew contained
no money.
G. N. Houtton, a miner of Canon
City, Col, was called to show that he
was arrested during the troubles at
Victor and that the first question ask
ed him was whether he was member
of and intended to support the West
ern Federation of Miners. He had re-
piled that he was a member and on
that he was Immediately clapped in
jail
Mr.. barrow at the conclusion of
Houtton's examination announced that
with the exception of one or two wit
nesses who would not take up much
time, and the reading of the Bradley
dispositions from San Francisco and
the testimony Of G. H. Meyer and w.
D. Haywood, the defense was all in.
He asked that an adjournment be TAX
en- until Monday morning. The state
agreed and an adjournment was taken
until Monday morning.
Judge Wood announced that he
would put counsel on both sides in
notice before the arguments as to what
the Instructions of the court would be.
This, he said, he thought would ia
cilitate the preparation Of the argu-
ments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
SaIyar Cures Blood POSiOn
SaIvar Cures Blood Poison.

ACQUIRED or hereditary, perfectly,
positively and permanently cured, no
matter in what form or how obtained,
scrofula, eczema, stomach trouble, ca
tarrh, all diseases of the blood kid
neys. oladoer anu rneunasism. Inere
var cures when all else fails. Salvar is
not an experiment, as all those cured,
will be only too glad to inform those
afflicted, know what Salvar has done
for them. Salvar is a home remedy
treatment, containing no minerals of
any kind or character; purely vege-
table--which has been proven by the
best chemists in the country. For fur
Their information so page booklet
free for only the asking. Address
j. A. Policy. General Agent.
los E. 5th St Topeka, Kan.
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
BRASS BAND in CHURCH
Emmanuel Baptist Church at Chicago
Makes an Innovation.

Chicago, July 6.-The blare of
a brass band of thirty-five pieces will
be the accompaniment to Rev. Johns
ton Myers sermon on docs Life End
?" at the evening services at I'm
manuel Baptist church tomorrow
night.
The special function of the band
will be to give three classical select
ions. Rag time and popular favor
ties are to be tabooed at least for the
first night of the innovation in reli-
gious services.
The band engaged is the Graham
School band of which William E.
Watt, principal of the school, is d.
rector. 1t is composed of boys and
girls in the grammar school grades
and its cornet soEoist is crippled girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
At the Air Dome

The Gilmore players repeated why
He Divorced Her" to another well
pleased audience at the Air Dome last
night Tonight this company will pre-
sent for the first time in this city the
four act society comedy-drama, "A
Woman.s Destiny This play has
been successful in the larger cities. Its
scenes are laid in and about the city
of washington. Mr.. Gilmore will be
seen in a part entirely different from
any in which he has so far appeared
here, that Of an English lord. He is
said to be at his best in this part. As
this is the farewell performance of
this clever company they will probably
be greeted with full house tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
DEAD NUMBER Il.
Reports From Wisconsin Tornado Are
Still Coming In.

sons are now known to have been
killed in the tornado which swept a
path 100 miles long and from a mile
to a few rods in width through the
counties of central Wisconsin on We'd
nesday. Details of the damage done
by the tornado are still coming in very
slowly and It is believed the death list
will be somewhat Increased when all
points visited by the tornado are heard
from. n addition to those killed, a
score or more people were injured,
some OF them so seriously that their
recovery is doubtful. The property
damage has not been accurately esti-
mated but undoubtedly will be heavy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
WEEDS at Age OF sc.

New York, July civilian Shinton
of Los Angeles, Cal, and Mrs Eleanor
G.. Ronk of Passaic. were married at
the parsonage of the Methodist Epis-
copal church in Ridgewood, N. J., yes
terday Mr.. Shinton, who is s5 years
old, was formerly a resident OF Pat
erson and came here to be married
early this week. Mrs. Ronk was the
widow of the late Henry X. Ronk. She
is in her seventy-seventh year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
Ben Franklin's Home for Sale.

Paris, July Ga movement is on
foot here among Americans to pur-
chase the house In which Benjamin
Franklin lived while here and make it
a museum. The house is situated not
far from the ministry of the interior
and the owners declare that 1t was
built for Franklin himself he pre-
pairing even the plans. 1t bears on Its
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
BY.P.U. to Meet in Cleveland.

Spokane, Wash, July 6.-The board
of managers of the Baptist Young
Peoples union, which is in session
here, last night selected Cleveland, o.,
as the place for holding the seven
teenth annual convention next July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
scaYold FaIIs. Two Tniured.

Junction City, Kan, July 6.-Friday
afternoon a section of the scaffolding
of the library building gave, way under
the weight of q large quantity of stone
severely injuring Pete Klingberg and
Z. F. Sherman, stone masons, who were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
A Negro Woman Jointist.

Junction City, Kan, July 6.-Sallie
Pelton, a colored woman living on East
Sixth, was arrested for selling beer. A
barrel OF beer and a case of empties
were conf1scated. In police court the
woman was fined 800 and costs and
sentenced to 80 days in Jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
TO INCORPORATE HOYT.
jackson County Commissioners Yield
to Appeal of Citizens.

Hoyt, Kan, July 6.-After a long
hard struggle the citizens of this town
have finally succeeded in having the
commissioners grant them the right Of
incorporation.
An election for city officers has been
set for July %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
Wheat Tests sd Pounds.

Junction City, Kan, July 6.-J. L.
McNamee commenced threshing Friday
at his farm west Of the city. Mr.. Ho-
gan of the Hogan Milling company went
to the field to test the wheat. He found
1t tested 81 pounds to the bushel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06

at work there. The scaffolding on
which the men stood was about IL feet
above the floor and when 1t fell, it
made great noise that was heard in
all parts of the business portion of the
city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06
EEMGsSENGEE
NX.Sy. u s ss:aTs BINDER
STRAIGHT fcl6AR ALWAYS RELlABLQ
THE LEWIS FACTORY. Roortas III,

front Franklin's name. surmounted by
a medallion portrait OF him. The house
has recently come on the market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-06

lseet me at the chautauqua.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-15
Your paper has

Editor The Ranch: Your paper has
been coming to me for several years.
have valued it chiefly for the adj
vertisements, but lately l have been
taking a lively interest in my small
and badly neglected orchard. l may
as we'll acknowledge that interest was
awakened by a visit last spring from
a new fruit inspector who emphatic
ally informed me that If l did not
get out and spray and take care of
those trees, he would. l began read
ing Mr.. Walden's fruit notes and real
lied that for them alone The Ranch
is a very valuable paper. l sent the
dollar due on my subscription to Feb
OS. and anxiously await Mr.. Walden's
coming article on top grating, as L
have lot of worthless Ben Davis
trees that | should like to ask advice
about in your fruit columns.
Will Mr. Walden please tell how to
treat 10 year old orchard originally
800 Stark Bros. trees-headed low
three to five main branches-good care
for five years till we realized how
very worthless Ben Davis apples were.
We did not want to eat them and could
not cook them, so let them go to
brush and weeds for five years. l was
going to chop them down and plant
corn next spring, but If they can be
changed into Spitzenburgs or Wine
saps, please tell us very plainly what
is the process? Trees 80 40 feet
apart, large, tall, all brush and
switch, but except for few aphis very
healthy; fruit inspector found no
pests except aphis.
Where will one begin. How much
to prune? how many CRAFTS to put on
one tree? Please explain very plainly
as we never saw a graft. Having
mans eye for symmetry kept the heads
low and nice and round as long as
one could reach all the branches from
a step ladder. Then, like the colt,
they got too big for us to train and we
let them go which in our rich Okano-
gan soil they did at runaway pace
nearly 800 worthless trees. Beside the
Ben Davis there are many summer and
fall apples, two or three of kind, for
which there is no market except as
pig feed. What shall we change them
to? Climate about like Wenatchee-
mild in winter. What will one change
worthless plum trees to?
MRS. c. X. STANTON,
Oroville, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-15

subscribers to become members? Will
you not urge live stock, agricultural,
horticultural seed growers and other
associations which are interested in
the objects of this Association to take
out life memberships, and individual
breeders of animals and plants to be-
come annual members? You will I'M
derstand that only because the Asso-
citation has not accumulated means
with which to employ office help to
make a campaign for members do
thus make a personal appeal to you
and to 80 other agricultural, live stock,
dairy and horticultural papers.
Assuring you that the Association
and especially it's officers will appreci-
ate whatever courtesies your paper
NAV see fit to offer will be most hearth
ly appreciated, l am cordially yours,
w. M. HAYS, Secretary.
Washington, d. G.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-15
Rule of Three.

Three things to wish for-health,
friends and a cheerful spirit.
Three things to delight in-frank-
ness, freedom, and beauty.
Three things to admire-power,
gracefulness, and dignity.
Three things to govern-temper,
tongue, and conduct.
Three things to hate-cruelty, AFRO
gance, and affectation.
Three things to love-purity, truth,
and honor.
Three things to be-brave, gentle,
and kind.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-15

A sure and easy way to clean a
range of SCOT is to burn raw potato
parings on the Goals. This will also
clean the chimney. If housekeepers
would burn the potato parings every
day, instead of throwing them away,
they would have quicker and better
heat in the oven, and better draft.
They may also be used in the furnace
to clear the pipes.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-12-15
THE SAME OLD MOTHER.

Now, jamie" said school teacher,
eff there were only one pie for dessert
and there were five of you children
and papa and mamma to divide it
among, how large a piece would you
get?"
"One-sixth," replied Jamie promptly.
"But there would be seven people
there, jamie Don't you know how