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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
rELEGRAPH SECRECY.

Secrecy in the transmlsslOh OF -sIe-
graph dispatches in China IS to be in
surad in the future by d provision for
the dccapitation of all Offenders re-
vca1ire the contents of important
messages in transit. In the case Of
ordinary messages of commerce. thus
revealed the penalty is to be ten
years in prison. Five years impris-
onment is provided for persons who
know of the revelation of such secrets
and neglect to report the matter to
the proper authorities.-New York
Tribune. E
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

The Standard Oil company admits it
is a corporation. although it denies ev-
erything elce-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
The Origin of Tip.

did YOU ever wonder. sir, what was
the origin of the word 'tip?'" said the
ssNo. I never did" the patron nm
swered dryly.
srWell. ri tell YOU. In the past, sir,
every restaurant used to have a small
contribution box beside the cashiers
desk fer patrons to drop coppers in,
and this here box was inscribed with
the words, TO insure promptness. Do
you see, sir? To insure promptness-
tip.
''This is your hat, sir? All, thank
you. sir. Thank you very much in
deed"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
Very Confusing.

w. H. Mallock, the we'll known Eng
Iish writer and political economist, said
at a dinner in New York. apropos of a
new definition of Socialism,:
81 find that definition rather con-
fusing. 1t reminds me of the young
oxford students badinage with the
policeman.
sOficer,' said the youth, late one
night. I'D like to ask you question.
livery well, sir
"'Does the law permit me to call
"sYou move on the officer growled.
"sBut stop bit. continued the
youth. Does the law permit me to
call an ass policeman
The law don't say nothing about
that was the gruff reply.
"a Then said the youth, good night
Mr., Policeman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
ALL ARE PROSPEROUS.

The farmers fled a smaller number
and. the city people a greater number
of mortgages last year than the year
before Which is all explained by the
price of vegetables News
A very good explanation, too, taking it
with all that it implies. The farmers
are unquestionably in good form, and
when they are prosperous the whole
country is prosperous. With the city
people the filing of mortgages is not a
had sign because they are doing bust
ness, and business involves credit and
the lnortga ging of one property to &C
ouire another or provide funds for new
emf arprisas.-New York Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

And so Foraker will probably make a
Fpeech in Kansas, also. Well, Foraker
can do that sort of thing, according to
reports.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
. Thanks for timely warming


Lady Cook, who was Miss Tennessee
Claf1in before marriage, at a dinner
during her recent visit to Washington
argued the question of woman suffrage
with senator.
( "Ah, SENATOR" said Lady Cook, at the
arguments end. you don't consider
this question as a whole. You consider
only a part of it. You are like the man
who weighed the dog. A lady owned n
huge st. Bernard dog that she was very
proud of. She told her gardener one day
to take the dog and weigh him. The
man departed with the animal, and half
an hour later he returned.
'Towser, ma am. he said, weighs
just a hundred pounds
"a hundred pounds?' exclaimed the
lady. He must weigh more than that.
Are you sure you weighed him right?'
"'Oh, yes, ma'am,' said the gardener.
I'm sure 1 weighed him right, only 1
couldn't get him all on the scales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the fuD day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
Anent the Longfellow Revival.

Anent the Longfellow revival, Jacob
H. Schiff, in the course of the recent
dinner that he gave in New York in
honor of James McCrea, the president
of the Pennsylvania railroad, told an in
teresting story about the poet.
During enc CT Longfellow's visits
was playing Hamlet was taken sud-
denly i'll, and it was seen that his I'M
derstudy would have to take his place
that night.
1.-The understudy was highly elated,
and in order to have a sufficiently dis
tingrished and appreciative audience,
he sat down forthwith and wrote some
dozen notes to the effect that he would
taxa Booths place that night, and dis
patched them 10 everybody of distinc-
ton in New York that he had ever met
or heard of.
zone of these notes went to Long
fellow. Longfellow's laconic answer
was:
Thanks for timely warning"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
They're All Like This.


People think that, because 1 am a
woman said Mrs. Hetty Green, Il can
be imposed on; but usually they find
out their mistakes" She was talking
about lawsuit wherein she had dis
puted her lawyers BILL and this topic
naturally led her to the topic of wo-
mans trustfulness.
There is a case in point" said Mrs.
Green, smiling grimly, "about young
and pretty school teacher. She once
asked her class for an original defini-
ton of the word wife
"A wife is a rib said one little girl.
Wives are guiding stars, said an
other.
"A comforter said a third.
AN Inspiration said a fourth.
Altogether the definitions, were rath-
er prosy and commonplace, but finally
a child of IL, smiling archly, said:
" "A wife is a person for man to ma
fault with when things go wrong. s
Good! cried the pretty teacher,
laughing. Good! That is the best def
milton of all. The best, the truest.'
But that afternoon, on the way home
from school, the little girl whose def1ni-
ton had so pleased, tripped demurely up
to the teacher and said:
Are you not going to marry that
tall, handsome young man 1 see you
with nearly every nfghtT
Yes said the teacher.
We'll, then, if my definition of
Wife was true
"-Ah, but dear, with US nothing will
ever go wrong. He says so himself"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26
inc Wrong Snirit.

Alfred H. Love. the famous peace
advocate, had been protesting in
Philadelphia against the great quanti-
1y of military features in preparation
for the jamestown exposition.
Really he concluded, with a
smile, "cne would think that the
whole world was animated and kept
progressing by a spirit of hatred and
revenge and bitter enmity. One
would think that-but perhaps you
know the story.
"a pale, wan woman, on her death
bed, said in weak voice to her hus-
band: ,&
Henry, if I die, promise me one
thing
Gladly. my poor darling. What
is It am to promfse?'
(" Promise me that you viii marry
Mary Simpson, -
1.-The man started.
"'Rut.' he said. Il thought you
hated her.
"I do. Henry the dying woman
whispered. I want to get even with
ner.'" f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

Lady-But why can't you get work?
William-Well, you see, lady, it's like
this ere. I'm too poor, ma'am- If I'd got
1 could git job as manager, but
I amt got the cash. That's just 'ow 1t is.
Pick Me-Up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

whats this 'dementia Americana 2
'sDon't know unless it is a brainstorm
raised by an exaggerated ego in a mt or
volitional insanity. baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

Mrs. Gaddie says she's quite Disguised
with those new peope who moved in last
week. There's some scandal in the fam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

Maude-I thought you had made Jack
swear off smoking cigarettes.
Ethel did. But had to let him begin
again. 1 couldn't think of a thing to give
him for Christmas that didn't have some
thing or other to do with tobacco.-Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-26

What is it ?" asked Mrs. Nayber.
"They wouldn't tell her. That's why
she's so disguised with them. '-Philadei-
phia Press.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
SHORTAGE OF FUR
 LAID TO THE LYNX

Panama Miners Record, March 25; Expert trappers and hunters who are coming into Fairbanks declare that it is at the door of old Mir. Lynx that the Panama must lay the blame for the poorest fur season in its his tory. The lynx this year have stampeded into the choicest fur sections of the district Where there was one of the kind last season, this year there are from twenty to thirty and they have all but exterminated both mink and marten. Of all the enemies that beset the little fur bearers. the lynx is most vicious. He kills out of cussed love of killing, and having indulged his murder lust he losses aside the carcass. He has no use for it even as food That this has been a poor fur year means that next year will be another, and that the one following will also be a short one; for it takes not less than three years for the mink and marten to breed back to their normal numbers. They throw only five or six to a litter and even the babies are in danger during seasons when the feeding is scarce, for the old males will eat them if they can find them.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
NATURAL GAS
 ON DEADWOOD

Billy Graham and Jim Cummings, who came into camp Thursday afternoon, report striking a flow of gas in shaft on Dead wood creek.
 Mir. Graham in the shaft and tapped the gas with his pick. He heard it hissing as il escaped through the vent made by the pick point and the scent of the stuff was very pronounced. He called to Cummings to haul him up, quick.
 On top, the men talked the matter over and concluded to lower lighted bundle of straw. The straw was dangled around in the hole till it was all burned up. but the gas did not ignite. Then Graham was low cred into the foul-smeling shaft again. He struch match and held it to the jet of escaping gas, when flash! flame shot up Cummings fairly made the windlass hum till his partner in the open air again.
 After the first hareup the flame burned steadily and maintained a length of two or three feet for about three hours. Then the dirt slumped in and smothered it.
 It has been suggested to Messrs Graham and Cummings that further investigation might possibly result in n supply of fuel gas of great value in the development of the district.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
Copper Used in Buildings.

The making of bronze fittings for build- ings is an industry which has doubled itbin three years. and Is increasing nt a ratio per- haps greater than that of other branches of the cupper-cunsuming industry. This is due co the enormous amounts of bronze trta- miuEs specified by architects in the form of decorative interior wofk.
 The ne~ Hali of Records in New York city. has e Q pound. of copper in its dome. The buiIding contains copper in ali forws to ths amount af do0,seu pounds. Three office baisi- iug- under ecn-si ueti~a iu ths Hsaneiai dis- triet Sill Fsauire iH the aggregate ttaeeo p1unds as copper within year, in the forms of sire. window shsstking ruohpz. lsaas rs and tsubse and hFsss htsiH9-.
 Co the RsW dep"ts ef sbs pssisN are, tsea ,. waaa sad Wsss~rW esilfuad. w hieh ace hslaE hulit ils New York snd uateksn. emrrss is
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
Richest Ore Ever Shipped.

About the first of Inst January carload of ore was sent from the Hay yeS-,iouette lease at Goidhcti, New. to the >elhy shelter at Saa Francisco. The smelter's receipt show the ore nst,ed the sum of ss7l2is.sa. The shipment consisted of gsis5 pounds of ore and tts value in soid was sie.a2 cents Co the pound and nearly is ounces of silver to the ton. tt ts conceded Ca have been the richest carload of ore ever shipped from any miHlg@ camp in the world.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
The District as a Whole.

"l have been on pretty well all the stam- Alaska" Mir. Laboski said to the Valley News, and have yet to see the district that could show an equal amount of gold with no more development work than has been done on the Canadian.
 People in there have been up against conditions that are not fully comprehended by those who have not actually experienced them. The lack of timber on the upper parts of all the cree eels heading against the big dome has made thorough prospecting on the upper limits impossible; and deep, wet ground has made the situation lower down almost us bad. A good many of the prospect ors were broke, or nearly so, and had to pull in such meager supplies us they could hustle at a loss of valuable time which should have been devoted to prospecting
 The heavy snowfall and the high winds have been another drawback. Tents would not stand against the storms, and it took time to build camps.
 Scarcity of timbe.' on the higher ground has been the hardest obstacle to overcome.
 Eleven mics of the upper end of Big creek is without timber. From Sto 23 below lower is the only good timber on the creek. Martin Josephson and two partners have taken q lay on below upper, with the stipu- lation that they are to put on forty boxes.
 As I said there has not been much accom- pished in the way of development, but when everything is considered the wonder is that there has been so much"
 Mir. Maboski expects to return after the opening of navigation and pole an outfit up from the mouth of the Chandlar.
 He estimated that about three people are going in to every one coming out Six more boilers were on the way in us he came ont
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
GOOD OPINION OF CHANDLAR
Mike Labosk Says the New District Has Shown Up Well
 Under the Circumstances.

Mike Lahoski got into camp Sunday fore noon chuck full of news from the Chandar. He left Fort Yukon April l. and would have been here sooner if Slim Behn had not drafted him into the mail service for one run up from Fort Hamlin.
 Mike has by nc means weakened" on the Chandlar. On the contrary, he believes the new district has a bright future, and consid- CTS that the showing already made is re- markabiy good when all the circumstances are remembered. Enough is now in sight, he says, to assure q camp of no mean pro- portions.
 On Big creek, from above to below upper discovery, the pay has been located and is known to be good. The creek has been crosscut at upper discovery, where the paystrealt is 20 feet wide. Above that the pay has been found to gradually grow mar rower, with a corresponding increase in width on the claims below. On discovery dump it is seldom that pan is taken that goes less than p cents, and some pans go as high as S5. From , below upi CT there is a stretch of ten miles down tine creek where no hoes have been put down. At 1T below lower, ow ned by Gilbert Young of Dawson, 
 the rim. Is and S2 feet deep respectively. The ground was thawe ed and it was impossible to get down in the creek proper. Byron Allen had staked 49 and Latoski 30, and they went to work with Young on 1T to what the ground locke ike In each of the two holes about feet of gravel was found which aver aged 2l2 or cents pan. Mir Laboski said it is remarkable how uniform the pannings fpny tlp for. hours with each pan giving practically the same result The bedrock is coarse and hard. Big creek is wide. From upper to lower discovery the claims were stal>ed l,326 feet across by 660 feet up and down the creek, with the lines conforming to the general course of the creek regardless of the short bends. Even under this arrangement there was sometimes room enough for two creek claims side by side.
 On Big SGuaw creek, Mir. Laboski said, no holes have been put down.
 On Little Squaw in holes on and above as high as cents pan was found on bed rock. The gravel extends from the surface to bedrock 22 feet in the holes on these claims. and carries gold all the way, esti- mated to run from cent tu 8 cents to the pan.
 On Mcclellan creek no holes are down; but three men from Panama town, Bill Las key and partners, will shovel in from the surface. From the top to deep down as they have gone the gravel carries gold, and i k evident Mir. Iaboski believes the ground will pay to shovel in.
 On Dictator creek, tributary of Middle Fork, Mir. Laboski had heard that Charley Sellnger, from Panama town, had got pay on No.7
 On Funcheon creek. which Jim Funcheon is crosscutting to feet of muck covers bedrock Mir. Laboski has no personal know ledge of this creek. but from hearsay Is led to believe that the hundred feet or more of gravel through which Funcheon had gone carries little or no gold.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
Game and Fish.

One thing that has been of great help to the prospectors is the game and fish. Mr. Laboski said he bought moose hams from the natives at S2.50 each. They brought in many that the market was overstocked. However, rabbits-the meek and lowly little bunnies that have SO long been relied on | y prospectors for subsistence in emergency now very scarce. Ptarmigan not very plentiful and were harred by the wind ; that it was at no time safe to depeud on the gun for immediate needs.
 Those who were in the Chandlar before the freezeup had no trouble to catch fish After the weather had turned cold numbers of dog salmon were thrown out on the bank and frozen. They made first-class dog feed. but of course dried fish are preferred be- cause they are lighter to carry.
 Chaudlar Lake is twelve miles long. It is well stocked with whiteiish and pickerel, which can le caught under the ice through out the winter.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17

HsS prayer hook. reeeetly prepared as 'he tn~tanee st th~ kiuG of Engbnd. as as iHte afi"a eo"tsias ths pratrr for the Pres. 'sisn' af the tHitsd states taken from the AniTrieaa Episcopal prayer huak
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17
Deep Snow In Koyukuk.

Just before Mir. Laboski started down, word was received from Freighter Glenn at Coldfoot that the snow was so deep he had not been able to get his horses out of the stable for six weeks.
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17

used almost entirely for the outside walls and facing taking the place of cut stone. Exchange
Yukon Valley news., 1907-04-17

Two dozen eggs in one day last week was the result from Mrs. Hceter's Si-hen-power poultry yard.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-17
SAGE LEAVES.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal
Brent, Feb. 16.-FOur successive
frosts have slightly damaged vegeta-
ton. Many of the strawberry blooms
were exposed to radiation and were
killed.
The carnival days were strictly ideal
bright, calm temperature.
Some of the young Cloptonia bellies
took in the full Mardi Gras course
lodging with friends in town at night.
Mr.. Nat V. Clopton and family Wis
tied Mr.. w. B. Mcmillan in the city
last Sabbath.
The Jernigan branch of our farm
ing syndicate attended a social gath
ering of the Brent neighbors, at Mr..
Press. Blanchard's on Wednesday
night to hear the rendition of Prof
Allen in his latest play" on the vio-
lin
When all seemed thrilled and filled
with sweetest strains, due course
of refreshments were thrust in for
change of the programme.
May the Professor ever enjoy those
mountaineering which return to his
lips on recalling the school days
where he first learned to kiss those
blushing lasses of sweet sixteen.
He has doubtless been well qualified
for teaching this art in the "destrick
skules.'
THOS. MCMILLAN.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-17

Ella Wales; William H Eccles and
Annie Lottie Kamble.
Co1ored-John Ards and Bessie
Robinson; Squire H. Harris and Mar
tina Dixon; JEFF Chambers and Nicely
Lee; Nose Flowers and Henrietta
Sanford; C. H Harris and Theresa
Jones.
Births.
White-To Wilmer S. Hall and wife,
a girl; to Ward H. Wilson and wife,
a boy; to E. H. Stephenson and wife,
boy; to NJ. Oberg and wife, a boy;
to H. E. Courtney and wife, boy.
Colored-To Geo. Ransom and wife,
boy; to R Cotton, boy; to Lottie
Nolan, boy.
Deaths.
White-Son of Mr. and Mrs. c. P.
CASTILLO, months, entero colitis;
Mrs. Carlotta H. deWells, 80 years,
blood poisoning.
Colored-Scott Gaskin, 40 years.
(no cause given; Amelia Wash
ington, IS years, (no cause given.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-17
THE RAIL R DAD
ORDINANCE
SIGNED
Mayor Bliss Affixing His
Signature to Important
Measure.

The ordinance, which was passed
by the City Council at its meeting
Wednesday night, extending the time
for the completion of the work of the
Memphis & Gulf Railroad, has been
approved by Mayor Chas. H. Bliss,
and will become effective when the
deposit of $4,000 is made by the pro-
motors, in the Citizens National Bank,
which has been designated as tenn
porary depository.
The ordinance is considered one of
the most important passed by the
council in many months, and the mem
bers of the council believe that the
extension of time allowed the pro-
moters of the Pensacola, Alabama and
Western and the Pensacola & North
eastern Railroad will result in the
building of both of these roads. The
measure that has been passed pro-
vides that twenty miles OF rOadbed,
ready for use, must be completed on
each road within a period of six
months, or else the money posted will
be forfeited
Other measures approved by the
mayor, which were passed at the re,
cent meeting, provide for the construc-
ton of building for police headquar-
tiers and city Jail. and prohibiting the
sale of intoxicants to minors.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-17
CENTURY.
Special to The journal.

special TO ne journal
Century, Feb. 16.-Mr. and Mrs.
Ranney and Master HamIin, are
spending few days in Mobile.
Miss Jean Patterson returned
Wednesday afternoon from a visit to
Mobile. She visited a school friend
and enjoyed Mardi Gras very much.
She visited her parents Friday
Miss Jennie Hurley spent the car
nival season in Mobile
Miss Dora Ella Hurley remained
over for a week visiting her sister,
Mrs. Nat Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Mayo visited
Pensacola during the carnival
Misses Lottie and Bessie Rice Wis
tied the Deep Water City last week
Messrs. Baugh, Baker, Daniels.
Woodruff, Vaughan, Waterman, Ward
and Misses Vaughan, Jellison, Edna
Vaughan and Mrs Pingleton went TO
Pensacola for the carnival.
Miss Maggie McCaskill has re-
turned from a pleasant visit to Mo-
bile.
Miss Jernigan is convalescing very
nicely.
Misses Irene Glover and Sadie Bun
berg have returned from a visit to
the Misses McKeon in Mobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Til
lottson and Miss Burberry are now
taking quite an extended trip through
south Florida
Representative Of the Kinds Lum-
Der Company, of Chicago, visited the
mills here yesterday. They are going
to build some mills in Mississippi in
the near future.
Miss Roetger left for New Orleans
Wednesday night She enters the
Touro Training School.
Miss Buford Farris, of Marion, Ala
is visiting Miss Irene Glover.
Miss Maggie Ray returned Wednes-
day from quite a pleasant visit 10
friends at Brent and Pensacola.
Strawberries are now plentiful and
strawberry short-cahe SraceS the
tables of Century often.
Judge and Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Bar
wick and children, Mrs. Jellison, Mr..
McBrearity. Mr.. Arthur McWilliams
and Master Willie Davis attended the
carnival in Pensacola
Mr.. McCaskill returned TO Century
on the fifteenth, bringing with him
his dainty bride. They visited several
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-02-17
Record of Vital Statistics
During the Past Seven
Days.
MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS
AS ARE OF RECORD IN OFFICES
OF CITY CLERK AND COUNTY
JUDGE.

The following is the record Of mar
riages, births and deaths during the
past seven days, as are of record in
the offices of the city clerk and county
judge:
Marriages.
White-Casper Walter and Isabel
A. Rance, John r. Cunning and Belle
Daw; William c. Moore and Mary
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