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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16

Atchison and J. M. Kretzmeyer of AL
ton, all of them being ex-blockmen, for
merly employed by the International.
The duty of the hickman was to go
around among the dealers as the agent
of the trust and make contracts and
adjust difficulties.
Mr.. Montgomery testified that he was
employed in 1904 at Emporia as block
man for the Osborne Harvester COM
pany. When the Osborne was absorbed
by the International, he was transferred
to Topeka and worked for the Interna-
tional for 30 days. He went to Griggs
& Moneypenny, implement dealers OF
Topeka, and made a contract with them
allowing them to sell the Osborne ma
chimes, in addition to which the con-
tract contained a special provision al
lowing them to sell also certain brands
of antitrust machines. When Mr.. Mont
gomery showed this contract to B. l..
Rees, manager of the International at
Topeka, Rees refused to approve it, and
the contract was cancelled because
Griggs & Moneypenny would not agree
to cease handling independent machines
AS a result of this affair. Mr.. Mont
gomery quit work for the international.
]. M. Kretzmeyer testified that he is
now working for the hardware company
of S. ]. Hibbs at Alton, Kan. In 1904
he was blockman for the International
with headquarters at Concordia. He told
of making a contract with e. c. Dunn
at Frankfort giving him an Information
a certain brand of independent made
machines. This contract was rejected
by the company. He also told of the
case of A. J. Post of Downs, Kan, who
handled International machines, and
shipped in sample machines of an in
dependent make. The International de-
manded that he give up the independ-
ent machines, and he refused. The In
ternational then instructed KretZmeyer
to cancel Posts contract, and check up
his goods, which Kretzmeyer did, and
transferred the International agency to
Posts rival firm at Downs.
1t was announced today by Earl Ev-
ans that he has prepared answers to all
the interrogatories submitted by the
state, and sent the answers on to the
head officials for approval. There is
no attempt to dodge in these answers"
says Mr.. Evans. I'VE expect a few peo-
pie in the attorney generals office to
fall dead when they find that we have
really answered these questions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
STILLINGS KEEPS 1T UP.
Now He Wants Assistant Attorney
General for Leavenworth.

Vinton Stillings, state senator from
Leavenworth county, and champion of
the booze interests of Leavenworth,
who a few days ago announced that
he had become converted to the prin-
ciples of prohibition and believed in
closing all the saloons, sprung another
sensation yesterday when he came be-
fore Attorney General F. S. Jackson
and applied for appointment as special
assistant attorney general of Leaven-
worth county.
IF you will appoint me to that job -
he is said to have told Jackson, Il will
close up every joint in the county in
"a hours"
Shilling said he meant business, but
Jackson refused to take him seriously.
When asked about the matter today
Mr.. jackson smiled and said. Just
say for me that I have the matter un-
der consideration"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
The Mauretania Will Sail for
America This Evening.
She Is Expected to Surpass the
Lusitania's Record.
1000 PEOPLE
And Then All Her Berths Are
Not Occupied.
Insured for 100000 and
Bears $13,OOO,OOO in Gold.

New York, Nov. 16.-Advices from
England as to the departure OF the
huge new Cunard steamer Mauretanin
from Liverpool this evening on her
maiden Transatlantic passage, say that
the event will be attended with an in
terest fully as keen as that which
marked the Lusitania's first departure
Tor America The Mauretania's recent
trials establish the conviction that sha
VIII surpass the Lusitania's achieve
ments, Notwithstanding the official an
nouncement that she will not be push
ed. The rival shipbuilding interests on
the Tyne and on the Clyde are intense
ly interested on this point OF speed for
the English builders hope to see the
product of the Scotch yards outpaced
by a Tyneside vessel.
The Mauretania will carry about 1000
passengers-a record for a westward
passage in mid-November-but even
then all her berths will not be filed.
The amount of gold she will bring here
adds yet more interest to the voyage.
The amount is yet uncertain but 1t will
probably be about $4,000, 900, mainly In
gold bars.
The Cunard company has insured the
Mauretania for nearly $4,000, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
RECEIVERS NAMED.
For Six New York Concerns Which
Recently Suspended.

Kingston, N. Y, Nov. 16.-Tem-
parary receivers were appointed today
for six New York banks and trust COM
panies which recently suspended pay
ment The banks are the Hamilton of
125th street, the Brooklyn bank, and
the Borough bank of Brooklyn and the
Trust sscompanies.s the williamsburg
and Jenkins of Brooklyn, the Interna-
tiona1 of New York Application for
the receivers was made by William F.
Mackey for Attorney General Jackson.
Orders to show cause why permanent
receivers should not be appointed were
granted and were made returnable at
Albany, November 80.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
SENSELESS STAMPEDE.
That Is What journal of Commerce
Calls Existing Situation.

New York, Nov 16.-A feature of the
current financial strain, says the Jour
nal of Commerce today, highly illum-
NATIVE of how even usually calm and
conservative mercantile interests may
lose their equanimity and join a sense
less stampede is the promptness with
which cancellations of forward mer-
chandise orders are beginning to reach
large New York merchants from their
interior customers. The cancellation
orders is not of large financial concerns,
it applies a rule to contemplated de-
liveries extending we'll into the new
year. It applies also in large measure
to staple goods, which even under ex-
tremely adverse circumstances will nee
essarily be required for consumption
and on which 1t is asserted the proba-
bilities of severe reductions in prices
are not especially promising. New
York merchants recognize the mfsappre-
hension under which the interior mer-
chants are applying for releases. they
are not accepting the cancellations, but
are instead showing their clients the
danger of the course that is being pur-
sued as well as the extreme probability
ing overdone.
It is important that the New York
commission houses and other large
handlers will not accept the cancella-
lions. So far as immediate financial
transactions are concerned they are
wherever necessary willing to snow
whatever cooperation may be desirable
to carry specific transactions over the
current period of acute strain, but they
are not willing to cancel orders already
confirmed nor to unduly delay delivery.
Letters to this effect are being sent
TO interior merchants who have appneo
for cancellation of orders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
RUSH OF BUSINESS.
Railroads Are Looking for a Heavy
Demand for CarB.

Chicago, Nov. 16.-While there are no
longer complaints of car shortage
the OFFICIALS of western lines do not
think the danger Of one is past. It IL
their opinion that when confidence IL
restored business will be resumed on
much larger scale and the roads Will be
unable to meet the demands which Will
be made upon them.
To prepare for this the shops are
overloaded with repair work. Thou
sands of cars, which heretofore were In
such demand that they could not be
sent to the shops until the great fall
rush was over, are now being over
hauled and put in storage. Moreover.
so far as known, no orders for new
have been Cancelled.
{ There Is still a strong demand for
coal cars and vast quantities Of fuel are
pouring into the northwest. The rail-
road men hope the bulk of this business
will be disposed of before the general
call for cars to move the crops Is made.
There is the wheat crop of the north
west and the corn crop of the south
west to be reckoned with. As yet little
of this has been moved and the longer
II is held in the country the more ur-
gent will be the demand for cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
IDEAL DAY FOR FOOTBALL.
Clear and Mercury Rises to Forty five
Degrees.

Just another ideal day for a football
game and that with Washburn and
Paramount with a game scheduled on
the local grounds is description of the
weather conditions. The mercury is
several degrees higher today than 1t
was yesterday or has been for a num-
Der of days past and that with the
promise of a finer day Sunday though
today will be hard to excel.
There is a light breeze blowing from
the northwest and it is not chilling as
has been the cause for the week past.
The story told by the mercury today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
HE TALKS OVER THE PRIMARY.
Captain Mitchell of Beloit Sees Chair
man Moore.

Captain w. H. Mitchell of Beloit.
chairman of the Sixth district con-
gressional committee, was in Topeka
yesterday ON political business. He
had conference with j. t. Moore.
chairman of the Republican state COM
mittee, and 1t is understood that the
primary election matter was the prin-
cipal subject discussed. Captain
Mitchell will work against the primary
in his section of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
State of Oklahoma Formal!
Admitted to the Union.
President Roosevelt Signed the
Proclamation at 1O:16.
OFFICERS SWORN IN.
Inaugural Ceremonies at Guth-
RE Followed by Parade
And Barbecue i'm Which Many
Indians Participated.

Washington, Nov. ia new star
was added to the American flag today
by the admission into the Union of the
state of Oklahoma. President Roose-
welt at 1915 o'clock this morning,
signed the proclamation admitting the
territories of Oklahoma and Indian
Territory Jointly as one of the Ameri-
can states. Little formality attended
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
ELLIS BlGSURPRISE
Princeton Scores Twice in the
First Half.
Yale Appears POwerless to Stop
Tigers Attacks.
METHODS DIFFERENT.
Tigers Have Powerful Attack,
Opponents Strong Defense.
Princeton Scores Most Points
This Season in Equal Games.

New Haven, Nov. 16.-Princeton
scored a touchdown and a field goal in
the first half of the Yale-Princeton
game. making the score for the first
half 10 to 0.
Yale has played eight games this sea-
son, scoring 1874 points, but has held her
goal line safe. Princeton has engaged
in the same number of contests and has
run up 272 points on her opponents.
Cornell won from the Tigers to 5. and
Villanova succeeded in making a touch
down. Yale's line averages 1879 pounds
and the backfield 1907 and Princeton
averages 1919 pounds a man on the line
and 1914 in the backf1eld. Yale is
favorite in the betting at odds of to
A.
Judging by the number of seekers
after tickets the attendance this af-
ternoon promises to be the largest ev-
er brought out. The total seating
capacity of the stands is about $4,000
and several hundred spectators will
be accommodated along the side lines
of the gridiron to see what is ex-
pected to prove the greatest game of
the year. The city ordinance against
bartering in tickets seemed to be eff
fective
Late gossip about the game indi-
Gates that Yale men are confident of
winning by such a score as 10 to 0,
and the timid ones would only con-
cede field goal by Harlan to the IT,
gers. Betting is not heavy nor much
2 to 1 on small bets and 10 to on
large ones
The gridiron is in splendid condi-
ton. 1t has been blanketed with
straw every night this week to keep
out the frost The turf is dry and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16

-
Governor of New State.
the ceremony which meant so much
to the people of the two territorities.
In appending his signature to the
proclamation, the president used a pen
formed from a quill plucked from the
wing of an American eagle. The pen
will be deposited with the Oklahoma
Historical society.
The constitution of the new state
was formally placed in the hands of
President Roosevelt on October % by
Governor F'rantz. Accompanying Gov
ernor Frantz was a large delegation
from the new territory. While not en-
thusiastic over all the terms of the
document, President Roosevelt made
it known that he regarded it within
the terms Of the enabling act and that
he had no further discretion and
would sign the constitution The addi-
sacred field of blue of the American
flag cannot take it's place until next
Fourth of July because of legal re-
quirement limiting the addition of
stars to Independence days. To all in
tents and vposes, however, Okla
homa will be a member of the Union
One interesting result which will fol-
low Oklahoman statehood will be the
N2f a man that is totally blind Pos
Ably for the first time in the history
of continental parliament blind man
will be thus elevated to the seats of
the mighty. Thomas P. Gore is the
man who receives this distinction
Arduously he has worked for Okla
homan statehood and rightly he will
be the first to profit by the accom-
plishnnent of his life long dream.
The addition of Oklahoma to the
Uni hrin faf he
original territory attained as a part
OF the Louisiana purchase. The Span
fish had reached the region in the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries. but
1t was unsettled and almost uninhabi-
tated until after 1920. when it began to
receive bands of Indians from east of
the Mississippi. In 1880 treaties were
made with the Indian settlers which
permitted the opening of vacant lands
to white settlers. The resulting settle
ment of Oklahoma in a single day is
one of the most dramatic events in the
story of America. In 1890 Oklahoma
was erected as territory by congress,
in 1904 an effort to create a state by
uniting Oklahoma with the Indian ter
ritory failed.
Oklahoma will be another domi-
nant agricultural state. Wheat and
cotton are the staple goods. while corn
Is grown in immense quantities. The
most highly developed branches of
manufacture in Oklahoma are all
based upon agricultural products and
upon mineral deposits.
Celebration at Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City, Nov. 16.-The sign
ing of the statehood proclamation was
signalized. at 9:16 o'clock this morning
by the ringing of bells. blowing of
whistles and general celebration.
Nearly one thousand people from
this city went on a special train to
Guthrie to attend the inaugural cere-
monies of the rev state government
this morning.
Secretary of State Is Dying
Oklahoma City, Nov. 16.-Secretary
with heart trouble at the Saratoga
hotel in this city and was unable to at
tend the inaugural ceremonies at the
state capital today. The oath of office
was administered to him by a notary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
Rank cashier a suicide.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 16.--J. B.
Thomas, aged g. cashier of the Bank
of Albany, Mo-. committed suicide late
Yesterday afternoon at a hotel in this
city, by shooting. Thomas walked into
bath room and deliberately blew out
his brains. No motive is known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
Alaska Is for Taft.

Juneau, Alaska, Nov. 16.-The en-
dorsement of William H. Taft for the
presidency, and ringing demand for
home rule are the salient features OF
the platform reported at the Alaskan
Republican convention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
Weather Indications.

Chicago, Nov. 16.-Forecast for
Kansas: Fair tonight and Sunday,
warmer tonight.
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CONTINUED on Page Fourteen.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-16
Celebration at Oklahoma City.
Secretary. OF State Is Diving.

Oklahoma City, Nov. 16.-Secretary
of State William Cross is critically i'll
with heart trouble at the Saratoga
tend the inaugural ceremonies at the
state capital today. The oath of office
was administered to him by a notary
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-09
Foreigners Can't Under
stand the American Woman.

The success that has come. especially
to the American woman within the past
twenty years or so, has been almost un-
bal lncing, says The Delineator for No
vember. She has developed a certain
outside manner of independence that for
eigners do not understand. They call it
Insecurity.
1t is simply a woman's way of trying
to express that she is not afraid. She
squares her shoulders and holds her head
high, and it never occurs to her that this
attitude of hers may strike old-fashioned
persons as uDfeminine
The new times and the new manners
have dispensed with many of the little
airs and graces and frilliness of dress
that suggest femininity.
Even the features of the American girl
have changed within the last decade,
and we are all familiar now with the
healthy, hearty, athletic young woman
who has become our national type.
But we must not go too fast in our
independent strides if we would retain
the birthright of sex.
The gentler virtues must be kept alive
SO long as we are to have hearthstopes
that will require the guardianship of
home angels. No matter how fine or
brilliant the achievements of women have
become, we cannot do away with SYM
patty and love that we associate with
home-with the mothers of the race.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-09
The Grace of Gentleness.

Gentleness is like the calm of a genial
summer day when all nature is at peace
and a spirit of rest and harmony broods
over the great temple of nature. The
sky is clOudless, the landscape stretches
out in waves of beauty TO the far bori-
zoB, with no passing shadows TO obscure
the view, the streamlets trinkle over
their gravelly beds, the flowers lift their
heads and their petals kiss the soft
winds that shake the green leaves. while
the birds from their hiding places be-
meath the sheltering boughs glance out
upon the scene, then. with heads behind
their folded wings, go to sleep ike
wearied children on their mothers
breasts. This is the gentleness of -
ture. with no storms bowling around, no
tempest raging. no turgid rivers. no
thunder's clash. no lightnings fash. no
excitement to ruffle and agitate the fair
face Of earth or sky; all is sunny and
serene and fair as a young saints dream
Of Paradise.
As it is with nature. so with man.
Gentleuess is summer III the soul, where
there are no winds of passion, no clouds
of temper, no shadows Of sin.
There are many around US carrying
burdens In secret Of which they viii
net tell. there are hidden CULTS Of FIRE
in their hearts consuming them: but
they will not betray the pain There
are deadly adders in their bosoms sting
ing them to death. but they give no sign
Of the hidden agony they are enduFlbg.
Not an grief wears the outward garb
Of mourningi sunny faces often vel
heavy hearts and laughing lips are no
index 10 the suffering soul great
number are singing that saddesI 81 all
threnodies:-
Though my heart shan break tomorrow,
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-09
Nav a wife kin in self- Defense2

In disposing of an aggravated case
of wife-beating Judge Tuthill, of the
Juvenile court, said last week that in
his opinion woman has the right Of
self-defense against brutal husband
and that if she kills him in defending
herself no jury will find her guilty. 1t
is understood that a good many settle
ment workers agree With him. DIR
Johnston Myers Of Emmanuel Baptist
church, in his sermon Sunday night, took
similar ground. He says that FIVE per
cent. of the married women in Chicago
are regularly beaten by their husbands,
and that not a few women expect to be
beaten and find no fault with their hus-
bands for doing it, Yet he agrees with
the judge that a woman could not be
blamed if, in defending herself, she took
her husbands life. 1t is to be hoped
that DR.. Myers is in error as to the num-
Der of wifebeaters, and that the courts
will make their punishment severe
enough to keep them from repeating this
crime Cor. Boston Congrega-
tionalist.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-09

shall wear a smile tonight
These are the people who do not ask
sympathy. hut who are most in need
of it. Therefore to include them, let us
show love and kindness aud tenderness
TO all. Let fan a cheerful word here
and an encouraging one there and hey
may take root and grow up to q good
frultion and yield a splendid harvest,
Let MS try to scatter sunshine every
where, but especially into the dark cor
ners and creyices where the ghastly
ghouls of hopelessness and misery and
PAIN and sorrow have made their lalr.
so as to rout them out with the dazzling
rays of comfort and hope
You will never he amiss in showing
genIleness, it is always timely and may
save life from despair,
Though in spots there is gentleness,
beautiful enough for heaven, and holy
places where affection ministers vita
angehc tenderness, yet the world IS full
of cruelty, the rich Cypress the poor
the poor stab the rich, the strong CRUST
the weak, no hand of love is reached
forth TO care for the sick, and the home
less are left to wander on the earth
pariahs among their kind.
Let your life be full of helpfuIness
bring kindness with you wherever you
90. Remember that gentleness in a
woman is loves mighty magnet that
attracts all and that without it she is
a monstrosity, paradox in nature.
Learn the lesson of gentleness in the
home. there it is as much needed as
anywhere else, even more. and from
the home let it so out broadcast to the
whole world
1.-THE good, the joy which 1t may bring,
Eternity shall tell."-Madison C. Eeters
in Chicago Inter-0cean.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-11-09
How Will Motherhood Rank7

What is the influence of the business
woman on the home life of America ~
writes Anna Steese Richardson in the
November Woman's Home Companion.
IF commercial success becomes the aim
of the intelligent woman in this country.
where will wifehood aud motherhood
rank in the scale of social economy!
"A nerve specialist, who has counted
among his patients scores of overworked
business women, remarked, in closing a
discussion of the woman wage Garner:
In considering the business woman,
tor, whether for her own health or her
own happiness. you must divorce her en-
tirely from the home
Il gasped. So wise a man as to nerves.
SO ignorant as to the heart, the soul of
the woman
''No woman can be divorced from the
home, either as an individual, instinct
with life, or as social problem. Home
and won1an-they are indissolubly linked
together, even though some women do
not realize the fact.
Every woman in business is a factor
in some family circle. or holds possibiil-
ties of establishing such circle. Nor is
her influence confined to her own inn
mediate family. All unconsciously she
perity to touch in an overwhelming circle
the homes of her girl friends, now mar
ried and to arouse in the hearts of
women singularly suited to the domestic,
sheltered life, feelings of discomfort and
envy. SO the financial independent sister,
cousin or girl is often the real serpent
in the notwithstanding garden of Eden.
Her commercial success, which passes
for unalloyed happiness with her married
friend who has never been in business, is
an evil influence which the most willing
and devoted Adam cannot always coun-
teract 4"