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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04
GRAY COUNTY WHEAT FINE
Rain and Snow of Past Few Days Has
Been Beneficial

Cfmarron, Kan. May "A general
rain began falling here at o'clock
Thursday afternoon and amounted to
lust one and one-haIf inches before Z
o'clock in the evening. Snow followed
on Friday Gray county wheat is in
fine condition and this rain puts It III
a fair way to make the best crop ever
raised here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04
Postonice Receipts Increase.

Kansas City. Kan, May 4.-The re-
ceipts OF the postoffice for April
amounted to $15,724- For the CORE
spending month in 1905 the receipts
were S13,614- This shows an increase
OF 10 per cent in receipts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04
TWENTY ACRES TO BEErs.
Great Bend Sugar Association Starts
| Out in Good shape

Great Bend, May 4-The Great
Bend Sugar Beet association now has
fifteen acres planted TO beets and will
plant five acres more The crop starts
out in fine shape, the ground having
been put in fine condition for the
growth of the plant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04
These steers Grew Fast.

J. E Hurley of Mcpherson township has
been taking note OF what good feed wifi
do Tor bunch OF steers He had twelve
coming two year old and a little over a
month ago he drove them five niles md
weighed them Then he turned them on
wheat pasture where they also had plenty
OF kafflr seed and fodder. At the end OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04

the thirty-third day, last Thursday. he
drove them five miles again and weighed
them The gain was Us pounds to each
steer--Pratt Union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04

Mr. Victor Patneaude s2s Madison
Ia I
was nabI to work.
L and ( built
in couple OF IWasa works
My consider a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-04
MR. VICTOR PATNEAUDE
My Wife and / Consider
Pe-ru-na a Household Remedy"
Victor Pafneaude.

In different seasons Of the year, ca
tarrh assumes different phases. Sys-
tenic catarrh is very common during
warm weather and is sometimes the
after-efect of some acute ailment ex-
perienced during the preceding winter.
, 1907-09-19
Sugar Men Like the Lander.

Lander, Wyo.-R. M. Booream, man
ager OF the beet sugar factory at Fort
Collins, Colorado, and w. l.. Petrikin,
secretary OF the Great Western Sugar
Company, who have been investigating
me beet sugar possibilities OF this sec.
ton. left for Denver. They expressed
themselves as highly pleased with the
country. and while they do not be
iieve that many more beet sugar fac.
tories Will be built until the Philip.
pines sugar tariff matter is settled
they stated that the Lander valley pre-.
sents an inviting field for such an en-.
terpriss.
, 1907-09-19
Rock Island to Get the c. & S.

New York.-Absorption Of the Chi
cage & Alton by the Glover Leaf is not
the only change scheduled in the rail-
road map of the West and Southwest.
Negotiations for the sale of the Col
orado & Southern we're on not long
since, but because of the unfavorable
conditions prevailing in the financial
world the project was temporarily
abandoned.
That the Colorado & Southern will,
in the not remote future. become a
part of the Rock Island system is adj
mitted by a gentleman who is familiar
with every step taken by the Rock ISL
and group. He pointed Il that the
Colorado G. Southern was the logical
connection by which the Rock. Island
might, by the building Of about 800
miles of road from its terminus at Grin
Junction, Wyo., connect with the Hill
roads.
, 1907-09-19
Skeleton Of Gushart Found.

Bags, Wyo.-The mystery ofthe fate
of John Gushart, who disappeared last
winter and who was believed to have
fallen into the Savery and drowned,
has been dispelled by the discovery of
a skull and femur. fragments of cloth
ing, a watch, s52 in money, a knife and
a bottle of whisky in the vicinity of the
Ayers ranch. The watch, knife and
fragments of clothing have been iden.
titled as Gushart's. and the skull and
temur are undoubtedly all of his re.
mains that have been left by the coy
otes and wolves. 1t is known that
Gushart, just before his disappearance,
stated that he intended to walk from
his isolated cabin, near the mouth of
the Slavery, to the ranch of John Burns,
near the Ayers place. He started on
the trip and beyond doubt persisted in
a blizzard ell route. The condition of
the cork of the whisky bottle indicates
that Gushart, benumbed by the cold,
attempted to draw ii with his teeth,
but failed to do so. A search of the
vicinity of the spot where the grew
some evidences of the winter tragedy
and the subsequent wild beast feast oc-
CURED, has failed to reveal any other
bones. The remains were found by the
two Morgan boys while they were rid
ing the range.
, 1907-09-19
SARATOGA sun


Last year the town of Warwick.
England, celebrated outdoors some of
the most interesting events in its his
tory by a pageant. in which hundreds
of persons assumed the character and.
in appropriate costume, performed the
parts of historic personages. This
year a similar pageant took place at
Oxford, and more lately there was an
other at Romsey. Mark Twain. who
was one of the spectators of the OK
ford pageant, remarked that America,
which provides so many fine sights,
had never furnished anything to equal
that. The length and richness of Euro
peal history of course offer attrac-
lions for such a pageant which could
moi be found in like abundance and
variety in America. Take, for exam
pie, the case of Romsey-a town so
small that comparatively few Ameri-
cans know anything about it; yet its
name was conferred upon it by the
Romans, and its actual history goes
back a thousand years. 1t was near
Romsey that William Rufus was shot
by a bolt from a crossbow, while hunt
ing deer in the New forest, and his
body removed in the rude cart of a
charcoal burner, ignorant of the dead
mans identity. In the pageant a lineal
descendant of the charcoal burner act
&c the part of his ancestor, and an
other part was taken by a lineal de
scendant of Walter Tyrrell, who is
supposed to have shot the king. But.
remarks the Youths Companion, If
such length of history a. this is lack
ing to American cities and towns,
there is nevertheless no dearth OF in
teresting event and stirring episode
which might well be produced in out
door pageants, designed, as those in
England have been. by students of the
local history, and produced by The
cordial cooperation of rich and poor.
high and low. without thought of
money-making. 1t is a matter of re-
gret among many students of social
development that the stage, which in
its early days was one of the greatest
of moral and educational forces, has
so completely failed to maintain its
power. Might not the historical pag-
cant be made to do at least a part of
this neglected work?
, 1907-09-19
Railroads Defy Commission.

Chicago.-At a general conference
beld in Chicago the Kansas railroads
decided to ignore the railroad com
mission of that state and refuse to
obey its order requiring a two-cent
passenger rate. The decision was
unanimous and was reached after a
thorough discussion of the situation.
The Kansas roads were represented by
the general counsel and their execu.
tive officers in charge of traffic. 1t
vas not decided to stand pat"
through I'M spirit of bravado, but upon
the ground That the worst the railroads
can get from II source. commission
or state Legislature, is a two cent rate.
and h roads do not propose to bow
tn the VIII of the commission until le-
6slly compelled to do so.
, 1907-09-19
Volcano in the Aleutians.

Seattle, Wash.-An officer of the
revenue cutter Rush. lying at Dutch
Harbor, under date of September 4th,
writes that IN September LIST and End
a volcano in the Aleutian Islands
broke forth. sending ions of ashes and
cinders over a OF more of native
villages, frightening the native Alas.
kans and whites and covering the
decks of the cutter Rush with debris.
A hurricane accompanied the phe-
nomenon, and wild fowl of all kinds
were driven TAR out to sea. No lives
were reported lost.
The eruption occurred in the vtcin'
ity of the volcanic island of Perry
which sprang up from the sea Il short
time after the San Francisco earth,
quake.
, 1907-09-19
TO BRING QUEENSTOWN CLOSER.
Modern Steamship Expected to Cut on
Thirteen Hours in Ocean Voyage.

New York.-The great turbine
steamer Lusitania is expected 10 Gu'
of thirteen hours from old time pc
tween Queenstown and New YORK. one
holds a record of t~wenty-six knots an
hour and the trip across the ocean at
this speed would consume hVe uass
ond eighteen hours time.
Such time, If made, also Will ~rest
the best Atlantic record from the Ter
mans, now held by the Hamburg
American steamer Deutschland.
The Lusitania and her sister snip
the Mauretania, not yet completed
stand as the largest ships ever built.
Both were constructed from the same
models. The speed of the Lusitania is
developed from four screws, run oy
turbine engines Of $4,000 horsepower
The number of furnaces is l92. Four
tunnels, twenty-four feet In iameter
and 1856 feet high, carry off the smoke
The Lusitania is 100 feet long
lightweight feet broad and with hei
h,.nkers filled carries 1000 tons OF
coal. Her displacement on low
Graught is $4,000 tons and she carries
a crew of nearly 900. The Lusitanla
has accommodations for $50 hrst-class
passengers, 500 second-class n lol
third-class passengers.
, 1907-09-19
Queer Case Of EIephantiasis.

New Neutrality-suspicious. at the kingi
county hospital. Brooklyn, have the
most remarkable case Of that rare dis
case, e~lephantiasis. The patient Is
Mrs. Juliette Felt of Brooklyn,a widow
sixty-three years old. Before she was
attacked by the disease she weighed
140 pounds. She new weighs 525
pounds and is gaining daily in size. Her
skin is thick, hard and coarse, like an
elephants.
The disease first manifested itself
seven years ago. Two years later she
found she weighed 355 pounds, and
then in alarm she resorted to medicine
and dieting, but these measures were
Of no avail. A week ago a physician di'
agnosed her disease as elephantiasis
An idea of the effect of the disease
may be judged from the fact that each
of her legs are as large in circumfer'
ence as the body of a well developed
man.
The doctors do not know whether
she will recover.
, 1907-09-19
Wanted-A "Poison Squad.

Urbana, Ill.-"Wanted-Twen!
young men, with good digestioni
the 'saltpeter squad"
This ad attracted deep interest
the University Of Illinois opened
week. A poison squad" so a
will be maintained for a year to
tigate the effect of saltpeter as .
sentative of meat. The Ame
Packers Association Is footing
bills. The state university chen
department consented to take ca
of the experiment.
Two large houses have been seq
for the squad. The young men VI
subjected to strict routine. Inc!
not be allowed to eat between y
but will receive board and i1
free. The health, weight ana ]
particulars of the men fed fresh
will be compared with those wh
given the cured meat. No resui,I
be published until the next "
completed. All meat will be cur
the university.
, 1907-09-19
Government Crop Report.

Washington.-The crop reporting
BOARD of the bureau of statistics of the
Department of Agriculture in its report
finds as follows:
Condition of corn On September list
was S0.2. as compared with S2.S last
month. 90.2 on September /. 1906. and
a ten-year average of 81.
The average condition of spring
wheat when harvested was I'll as com.
pared with 79.4 last month and S3.4 for
1906 at the time of harvesting.
The average condition of the oals
crop when harvested was 65.5 against
1856 last month, S1.9 on September /,
1906, and a ten-year average of S2.6.
, 1907-09-19
Dodqe Would Roundup banks.

Cody, Wyo.-Johnny Dodge. who re-
Gently challenged Clayton banks of
Cheyenne, worlds champion broncho
buster, to ride in contest with him Old
Steamboat, the champion cussed out
law of the world. for the championship
and a side bet of $500, has issued the
following statement:
Il notice by the paper that banks
claims he has written accepting my
challenge to ride at the Basin fair this
month. In reply l wish to state that
/ have at no time since my challenge
was issued received as much as even
the scratch of a pen from banks. His
letters have either all miscarried, or
else he is four-fushing. and l incline
strongly to the latter view. ! have re-
peatedly stated that l am ready at any
time to post a forfeit, and all banks
has to do to bind the match is to put
up his money and appear for the con-
test.
In his published letter to me
| which / have never received and which
l believe was never mailed-he states
that the Douglas state fair would be n
more appropriate place for the contest
Providing suitable inducements are of
fered, l have no objection to riding al
Douglas. Or, If banks fails to meet me
either at Basin OIL Douglas. l will &C
with him to the ranch where Old
Steamboat is kept and there contest
with him the championship, either pub
licly or in private. l see no good rea
son, however, why Clayton should moi
meet me at Basin; and, moreover, an
at a loss to understand why he persists
in evading the terms of my challenge
and neither communicates with me MOI
posts a reasonable forfeit, though Civ
ing the impression through the news
papers that he is willing and anxious
to ride. If banks is afraid to meet me
at Basin l will ride at Douglas of an,
other city"
, 1907-09-19
Democratic Women organi'l'

DEMONSTRATING to orgah~
Democratic women voters oil uhej
In order to give a solid party ~
to the next Democratic andia
the presidency. many OF Inc !
Prominent members of the Jane Z
son club of Denver, headed W
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, president n
club, are endeavoring to form VI
to be known as the Womehs y
Democratic League. The new
IRE broad in their scope, II per-.
intention of the promoters IN
cut all over the state with tne "a
Lranch of the league as headqu'I
For some weeks the plan S%s
in the formulative stage n nHS
informally discussed, pro ana ~
the club members. AS yet hvS
pct.on has been taken rega'u
Lrojeo., but it is expected inc qsl
will come up for disposal one
the other at the next meetihs
club, which is to be called
!tavitt.
, 1907-09-19
O M HAPPENINGS
WAGON Hammer Through Skull.

lander Wyo.-Workmen employed
nm the sewer system made a CHASTITY
find when they dug up the skeleton or
a man with a wagon hammer driven
clear through his skull.
Old residents identified the skeleton
as that of Harvey Morgan, who, with
Doc Barr and John Mason, were mas
sacred at Bloody gulch seven miles
southeast of Lander on June ~, leio'
by a band of renegade Sioux and Chey-
enne Indians, who ambuscaded n
murdered the men on their way from
Miners Delight to Camp brown, th=
| old military post which stood on the
present site of Lander. The podies
were discovered the mex day by Major
Kuykendall's expedition and brought
here for burial.
Two of these. with several others,
were found and removed to the local
cemetery some years ago, but the loca-
ton of Morgan's grave had been forgot
ten and was not found until discovered
today by chance.
Capt. H. G. Nickerson, president or
! the Fremont County Pioneers Assocl-
alton, favors sending the gruesome
relic to the Smithsonian institution at
, Washington, with an account of the
massacre in order to give the people OF
the East some idea of the character OF
the savages which the people of the
West have at last subdued in spite of
! the protests of many of the eastern
people.
1t is rather a strange coincidence
that Major Kuykendall, who was here
from Saratoga to attend the Masonic
grand lodge meeting, went out and
pointed IL the exact scene of the bat
tie in which six of the redskins were
slain before they overcame the unfor'
tunate men. In company with DR.. and
Mrs. T. B. Maghee of this city he drove
to the spot and after a few moments
search they found two of the shells
fired by the men. The Fremont County
Pioneers have determined to erect a
monument on the spot.
, 1907-09-19
ZooIoaY,s New Service.

Instead of going to geology and
physical geography to throw light on
zoology, DR.. Scharff of Dublin has re-
versed the process. In a paper read
to the biologists in Boston he proceed.
ed from the general principle that the
distribution of animals now living on
the earth tells the story of the forma-
ton and changes of continents. The
fact that certain fauna are common to
widely separated regions, such as
Japan and the United States, points to
a time when Asia was connected with
North America by a and bridge near
Boring Strait. 1t is furthermore prob
able that the widely differing species
of eastern and western America prove
that these regions were once separat-
ed by water. This theory is a striking
example of the constructive magma
ton in science. Moreover. 1t is OPP
posed to the hypothesis of Darwin
and Wallace. who held that insular an.
imal life had an accidental origin. Dr..
Scharff's theory really takes us no
than Darwin did to the origin of spe-
cies and the beginnings of life in the
great process of evolution. Men of
science are baflled by 1t az before,
and with Dubois-Raymond repeat their
ignoramus. ~ignorabimus.
, 1907-09-19

The curious assertion is made by a
london correspondent of a New York
paper that as King Edward grows old.
er his Teutonic accent grows more
gutteral. and it has become difficult
for those who see him only occasional
iy TO understand his speech. The
kings father was a German prince
and it is a matter of curse that he
should be as familiar with the Ger
man as with the English language.
but it would seem hat after a life.
time spent in England his speech
would be free from n foreign accent.
, 1907-09-19

DR.. Charles McCutcheon of Tacoma
Puget sound district are too silent and
need the joyous songs Of birds to en-.
nance their beauty. A year ago he
bought a number of skylarks in Eng.
land and liberated them in Washing.
ton They have thriyed and multiplied.
much to the pleasure of everyone, and
now he is going to make a similar ex.
pertinent with other kinds of birds.
1t is a good work and one which de.
serves to be crowned with success.
, 1907-09-19

Perhaps n of the oldest suits ris-
Ing from the anguish of a crushed
heart is n brought by a Tilted young
man for damages in st. Louis. not
against the tickle fair one, but against
a railroad company. The employees
of the company used him roughly
while on an excursion, and his sweet
heart who was along. resented his lack
of bravery in not resenting this treat
ment by d~issolving their engagement.
n delicate rebuke to the fair hero-wor.
shipper by fixing the damages of her
loss at only 5000.
, 1907-09-19
To Make Rails for safe'''

New York.-Ex-Judge L; IA
chairman of the board OF Glie"
the United States Steel oUr
who has just returned ifo~ nsNd
months vacation abroad. IN spsd
the movement for the improves
steel rails, said that the CONN NM
experts appointed to conslue, !, I'd
ject would probably report " ns
three weeks. he said It Wou,u al
that the steel manufacture 4
railroad companies would n' nod
fort to adopt a standard lna'
sure the safety of the pupiio'
, 1907-09-19
Gets Three Bears.

Pinedale, Wyo. - Forest Ranger
Harry Hall brings news of an encoun.
ter between a sheep herder and a fe.
male bear with W cubs. The fight oc.
CURED in the Sandy district. Bears
had been troublesome and the herder
finding the mother and two cubs in his
camp attempted to drive them away
The old bear showed fight and the
herder shot her. With only two shells
left he killed the two cubs, thus killing
three bears with three cartridges.
, 1907-09-19

Many people will say
that the theater is for rec
reation and amusement,
and the entire dismissal
of any mental effort on
the part of the audience.
1t is of course all of that,
and there are many Tenn
piles of Thespis filled with
laughter and music and
, 1907-09-19
Third D~efalcation in ST. Months

New Orleans, LA $1,000 short
age has been discovered in the &C
counts of the state tax commissioner
al this city and the police are search.
ing for Charles E. Letten, a clerk i'm
the office. who is charged with the de.
~Iclcation. This is the third defalca.
ton in six months in the Louisiana
tax department. The two preyious
shortages totaled nearly 500, OO0.
, 1907-09-19
VIII Go the Limit

Topeka, Kan.-Governor Hoch stated
on being informed of the action of The
railroads in Chicago in deciding to ir.
more the Kansas two.cen; fare order
that he would go to the limit Of bis
executive power to enforce the order
He would not say fatty whether or
not he would call a special session Of
the Legislature.
, 1907-09-19

A main point with re.
gard to doing anything
intelligently is that the
dcer should have a right
aim. In warfare the aim
is not to have smart uni
forms or well-fed SOL
diers, but to beat the en-
envy; and in business
not to have smart count
, 1907-09-19
Chr Ennrattn11 nf
8nyH
By A. H.. GILKES,
Headmaster Dulwich College, England.

ing houses, but a useful trade. And just a in warfare o in business, any
one, who mistakes the means for the end, is likely to fail, % with regard to
schools, anyone who has not a knowledge of the right aim, but SEXES upon
what is a means and not a N end, and eXalts this as though it we're every
thing, is a dangerous man. The more able and brilliant he is, the more
dangerous he is. All his excellence only increases the mischief which he
does when he takes upon himself a task which he is not competent to per-
form.
The aim which, l believe, schoolmasters generally set before them
selves, in default of a better, is-not simply to give boys a knowledge OF
Greek II French, German or Latin, science or mathematician simply to
teach them to swim or to play at cricket and football, to give them an in
sight into business matters, or to enable them to carry OF a business core
spondencc in what is called Engish-not simply to use their eyes and ears,
or to speak in public, or to exercise authority, or to get their own living
it is not simply to shrink from danger and responsibility, n to hold their
own in every kind of temptation. The aim is not to help them to any sin
gle benefit or any little group of benefits. The aim which, l believe, W re all
have is different from any of these taken singy; but it implies them all, it
is beyond them all, and superior to them all.
Perhaps some people may think that this is too vague an aim; but |
think that such a thought is incorrect. The aim may be described with
much precision. The qualities which make a man are truthfulness, clean
ness, courage, public spirit, kindness, with al understanding quickened in
, 1907-09-19
Urup Mtsstntt
ut tl1e aBlay
By ETHEL BARRYMORE,
Actress.

song where such diversions are offered. But surely there is also a great
purpose in the drama, and any big question affecting a great class of the
people of the world should surely prove of great interest and value to those
who take the theater seriously.
The foles and injuSices of the times are the dramatists' themes and
tools. When they are skinfuly handled they never miss their aim. Sheri-
dams "Iivals" did more to suppress the clustering, oatheracking swagger-
ness of his period than a thousand tracts could lave done.