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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19

1t isn't that, and you know it isn't
care more about you than 1 do about
f1Ve snipe, but 1 want you to see this
thing in the same light that 1 do. 1 go
out to shoot snipe. I get the day in the
country. The walking is good for my
rheumatism. I get the exhilaration of
shooting gamy bird. 1 talk with the
farmers about their crops. 1 drink
more OF less buttermilk. 1 meet other
sportsmen and we compare notes and
get acquainted. shoot and bring home
four dozen snipe, and we have snipe pie
for week. feel rejuvenated, am com
pletely restored to health, and during
the rest of the fall I go around whist
ling and singing. I hope you won't be
selfish in the matter
Of course, 1 told him that I didn't
want to be, and that I should be glad
to see him go out and enjoy himself
What was the use in saying anything
to the contrary? He would have gone
anyhow. AS soon as dinner was over
he went off somewhere and borrowed a
gun and a game-bag and ammunition,
and he spent two solid hours cleaning
that gun. 1t was a gun a rod long. 1
can't remember what bore he said it
was nor how many snipe it would shoot
to the minute, but the figures were very
liberal All you had to do was to put
in anywhere from a dozen to a bushel
of cartridges and aim and pull the trig
ger. 1 asked Mr.. Bowser if the gun
wasn't made sixteen feet long so that
the muzzle could be used to push snipe
off their nests, and for a few minutes
the relations between us were strained.
We had hardly become reconciled again
when I asked him what sort of a look
ing bird the snipe was. He didn't seem
to hear the question and 1 put it again.
Then he looked up with a red face and
said that some folks called them par
tridges-some folks who didn't know
anything. I had my suspicious but
said nothing further. When we got
ready for bed Mr.. Bowser charged me
as follows:
Not to let him oversleep.
Not to let him forget the gun.
To see that he took some ammonia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19
ECZEMA ONLY SKIN DEEP
Proven by Records Now on Display at
StansfieId's Drug Store.

The old theory that skin disease was
caused by bad blood or a disordered in
ternal system has been proven a false
one. 1t is now well konwn among up
to-date skin specialists that skin dis
ease is caused by a germ in the skin
and that this germ must be killed by
local treatment.
Mr.. Geo. w. Stansfield druggist at
6S2 Kansas avenue. Topeka, has in his
possession hundreds of letters from
persons formerly suffering from eczema,
psoriasis, salt rheum and other dis
eases of the skin. He also has pictures
OF men, women and children showing
the skin diseased, cracked and bleeding.
while a few months later it is clean,
soft and smooth with every trace of the
disease wiped out. All these cures We're
made by a local external application
of D. D. D. Prescription, remedy that
instantly stops all itch and quickly kills
the disease germ, effecting permanent,
positive cure.
Here is a simple letter from ]. Dali
ton Wilderness, Mo-: ''I have used the
bottle of medicine you sent me and am
now a we'll man. Please accept my
heartfelt thanks. Your remedy cannot
be praised too much"
Every sufferer of skin disease can see
such letters by calling at Geo. W.
Stansfeld's drug store, 632 Kansas ave-
nue.. Topeka, and also secure without
charge a book on the cause and cure of
skin diseases
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19

sand cartridges and a gun thirty-two
rect long L feel all the exhiIaration 1
anticipated. Have arranged with the
farmer for the use of his two-horsa
wagon to bring my snipe home. He is
really an intelligent man. He doesn't
think the Standard Oil company will
pay that fine for two or three weeks
yet. Goodbye
Once more heard from him. 1t was
two hours later and had begun TO
worry. 1t was needless, for he said:
Il am on the trail of the snipe. There
are billions and billions of them. and
they cannot escape me. Wish I he'd
brought two thousand cartridges. Wish
the gun was fifty feet long. Am tele-
phoning from another farmhouse. Far
mer says that the humble bee is preper-
ing to retire to his lair for the season.
One more effort and L am among the
snipe. Never feft SO exhilarated in NV
life. By John, but this is seeing life.
this Isl G-o-o-d bye"
That was the last from him rJo,,rs
and hours later the telephone called me
again and the voice of a stranger said.
IF that is Mrs. Bowser I want to
say to her that there is a short pudgy
man here and talking about snipe ana
exhilaration. He claims to be yorIr
husband. Will you send for him be-
fore the farmers gather and run him
off and lock him up for a looney?'
sent for him and brought him home
gun and all. and as write this he lies
asleep on the lounge. The doctor saws
he will probably live through it but All
been bitten by at least twenty snine
and a dozen farmers.-(Copyrieht
1907, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi,
cate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19
Don't Let Your
Piles Grow
Every HemorrhOidal Ulcer Is Fertile
Field for Cancer and Other
Deadly Diseases.
TRIAL PACKAGE FREE.

Constipation unchecked brings inf1am-
nation, Inflammation begets piles and
piles too often superinduce tumors of
malignant nature.
Piles Cor hemorrhoids) rarely kill, but
they cause more agony in a few min
utes than much more serious troubles.
They are easy to cure if you go at 1t
right.
An operation with the knife is dan
gerous, agonizing, and rarely a per-
manent success.
There is just one way to be cured
one sure way, painlessly and private
ly-and that is with Pyramid Pile Cure.
We mail a free trial package to all
who write.
1t will give you instant relief, and
start you we'll on the way to perfect
cure.
Then you can get a full-sized box
from any druggist for so cents, and
often one box cures.
Insist on having what you call for
Just send your name and address to
Pyramid Drug Co., 81 Pyramid Build
ing, Marshall, Mich, and receive free
by return mail the trial package in a
plain wrapper
All druggists. 90 cents. Write today
for free package.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19
In SPECIAL SESSION.
California Legislature Responds to
the Governors Gail.

Sacramento, Cal, Nov. 19.-The
special session of the legislature called
by Governor. Gillette convened today.
The governors message which was
read in both houses says that the ses-
sion has been convened to enact legis-
lation believed to be imperative, be-
cause of unusual financial stringency,
brought about by conditions existing
in the east. The country is prosperous
and legitimate business was never in
better condition. The present state of
affairs is attributed to extravagant
living, wild speculation, the frenzied
finance of the stock and bond mani
pulations of Wall street.
The banking Laws need to be
amended so as to afford better pro-
lection to depositors. Trust COM
panies and corporations doing an in
terstate business shouhld be placed
under federal laws, and if necessary
the constitution should be so amended.
A committee should be appointed to
investigate the methods of doing
banking business in this state. Owing
to conditions in the east California
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19
WHEELER GIVEN OFFICE.
He Will Be Legal Treasurer of Ffnney
County for Present.

A. C. Wheeler, Republican, was by
| the supreme court this morning
awarded the custody of the office of
| county treasurer of Finney county over
H. v. Lawrence, Democrat.
! The announcement was made by the
| court that the peremptory writ asked
for by Wheeler was allowed. and that
! the opinion in the case would be pre-
| pared later.
This action of the court does not
settle the title to the office. as there is
| another case pending in the court in
| which the merits of that controversy
are involved. The only question settled
| is that there was no stay in the order
of the lower court, and that 1t should
| become effective pending the final
adjudication of the case. The lower
courts order was that Wheeler was en-
titled to the office. That order was
, made to take effect on October g..
When October came around, Law
renee, the Democrat, refused to turn
over possession of the office. He held
that the case was pending in the SUI
preme court but it turned out that no
stay had been granted by the supreme
court.
The application for a write of man
damus was not made by Mr.. Wheeler
himself, but by the county commits
sioners, who refused to recognize Law
renee as the legal county treasurer.
Lawrence, however, had all the county
money, and the books, and there was
no way to get him out except by force.
Attorneys representing the county
commissioners came to Topeka on
October A, and applied for the writ.
Mr.. Lawrence was represented by
Major A. M. Harvey of Topeka. The
court set the case for hearing, and 1t
was expected that a decision would be
rendered at the November term. The
court failed to hand down that opinion,
however, and it was given out today,
out of the REGULAR order of business OH
account of the disorganized conditions
which prevail in Finney county busl-
ness affairs due to the contest for the
office.
The contest between Lawrence and
Wheeler is an echo of the last election
Lawrence had held the office one term,
and was a candidate for reelection.
Wheeler was nominated by the Repub-
licans. On the face of the returns
Wheeler was elected by a very small
majority. Lawrence started a contest,
and claims that a recount of,the ballots
was started, and continued until it be-
came evident that Wheeler was losing
votes and would forfeit the office If
the recount was continued. Lawrence
claims that the recount was never
finished, but that the certificate of cleo
ton was issued to Wheeler. On that
ground he took the controversy into
the courts, and the case on these issues
has not yet been presented to the SUI
preme court.
The fact that Wheeler has been
given possession of the office is, how
ever, almost equivalent to a victory,
for it will be a number of m onths be-
fore the original case will be heard
and decided. t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19
Flemish Linen
Pattern Cloths
For Round Tables

D.A. 2 yds. square cloth, formerly $4.10 $375
2x2h yds cloth, formerly $5.15 now $465
2Ax2A yds CLOTH formerly $3.50 now. SASS
2Ax2A yds cloth. formerly 1918 now. 500
241 in Napkins, formerly $3.50 dz. now SASS
D.L. 2x2 yds cloth formerly $5.35 80. $3.50
2x21a yds cloth formerly $6.75 5000
2Ax2A yds. cloth formerly $S25 $3.50
2hx2k ylds. cloth formerly 1915 $7.75
"a II in. Napkins. formerly $3.50 d. $6.75
Dis 2x2 yd. cloths formerly $500 now. .$625
2x2 II yds. cloths formerly 1915 now. .S775
2Ax2A yds. cloths formerly 5000 $500
2kx2h yds cloths formerly now $500
213xS yds. cloths formerly $3.50 119O
26 in Napkins formerly $11.00 doz. $3.50
DE- 2x2 yds cloths formerly $3.50 now ssAs
Xxx "a yds. cloths formerly $11S5 now 1880
2hx2M yds cloths formerly $1,000 now 1900
~ In Napkins formerly $14.OO doz. now 1915
ID. 2x2 yds cloth formerly $11.5O now.1OOO
81 in. Napkins formerly 1000 doz now 1775
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19
along in case a snipe bit him.

along in case a snipe bit him.
Not to let him forget to kiss me ere
he departed. He didn't look for any
accident, but a fuse might possibly
blow out somewhere.
Not to let anything that the cook
might say disturb me. The cook didn't
know a snfpe from Goldfish.
To remind him to telephone me
whenever he had opportunity during
the day.
To remind him the very last thing
before his departure that he was no
dray-horse, and that if he slaughtered
more than two dozen snipe he was not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19
Prosperity Unparalleled.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 1s.-Governor
Sheldon in his Thanksgiving proclama-
ton today declared that prosperity in
Nebraska had been unparalleled. Crons
industries and rural expansion he de-
thanksgiving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-19

bankers are unable to secure the bal
ances due them. This. with the with
drawal of money from the banks. and
the boarding of it has depleted the
cash reserve.
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-28
s5O,OOO ON DESIGNING
 WOMAN
Frank Ballard Hotel Man of Mexico City, FleeS Owing S15,000 to Creditors, Who Seek His Arrest,

Frank Ballard, propr;etor of the Bristol Sonora hotel in Mexico City, has suddenly left that ely and his whereabouts are at present unknown, although he is supposed To be in El Paso.
 The Mexicann Herald says:
 Ballard came to Mexico City some months ago from L"s Angeles, Cal He is an Englishman who had settled in California some years ago. Upon his arrival here he was reported to have investments in the form of a nursery in the state of vera Cruz. He leased the Bristol sonora hotel and made improvements Tn Its equipment and management. lie was well thought of at first in Mexico City and elsewhere in the republic, having made acquaintances in high places It was reported that he was engaged 10 be married to a Gaugnter of a governor of one of the states of Mex leo.
 For the month following his arrival here Ballard deported himself credita- bly. and was regarded as a young man of character. ability and high promise.
 Early in June there arrived in the capital a man and woman who passed as husband and wife. These persons were J. E. Owens, a newspaper man of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Bonnie Tuck CT, the wife of a prominent politician of Ohio. They stopped at the Bristol y Sonora hotel. Soon after their ar- rival here owens and the Tucker woman quarreled. Alter repeated al- tercatiOns between them. che woman disappeared from the city mysterious ly on the night of June f2. Ballard was reported to have lett ;ne city for California on the same night. owens remained here for two days ther,- after seeking in vain the whereabouts of Mrs. Tucker.
 Mrs. Tucker proceeded 70 San An tonic: Ballard went to Fl Paso. From San Antonio the Tucker woman went to Oklahoma City. where she was tracked by Owens. Then owens had her arrested on a charge of snug
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taken with him all the available cash there.
 Mrs. Tucker, the woman who is thought to have caused BaIlard's ina bility to meet his bills. had six times eIoped before she met Ballard. Half dozen men in the United States be- fore she came to Mexico had per mitted their sympathy to be stirred and their pride touched by her allur- ing story. With each one of them. according to reports printed in Ameri- can newspapers, her story was that of woman who was exceedingly un- happy and who lOnged to be enamel pated from the thraldom under which sine writhed. In almost every case she cOntrived to stir up a quarrel be- tween her husband" ana the newly made, unfedged friend" not forget ting to take with her all the money she could get out of him, and made off with the new acquaintance. only to repeat the interesting performance. Owens, while here said that he had spent S30,00O (Mexican currency on the Tucker woman since February.
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gling. In her distress srs. Tucker telegraphed to Ballard in El Paso to come to her. Ballard responded to her request and arrived in Oklahoma City to find both owens and Mrs. Tucker under arrest. Soon after his arrival there. the cases against both owens and Mrs. Tucker were dis missed, Ballard leaving Oklahoma City accompanied by Mrs. Tucker. owens, repentant, wired his wife in Cincinnati, asking her forgiveness and took the train for Cincinnati. Where Mrs. Tucker and Ballard went afer leaving Oklahoma City is not known.
 About two weeks ago Ballard re- turned to Mexio City, ysrensibly from California, where he mad gone on business. Persons who had known him while here recognized that he had altered not little for the worse during his absence with the Tucker woman. He appeared to be worried and to have lost his genial spirit.
 When Ballard leased the hotel he obtained credit for various goods at number of stores in this city, mak- ing his purchases on time. Last week these accounts fell due and bills were presented for payment. Ballard, it is said, wrote checks in payment of the bills, but when the checks were pre- sented at the bank upon which they were drawn, the merchants were in- formed that Ballard had not funds there sufficient to pay them.
 Search was then made for Ballard. resulting in the information that Bal lard had left the City of Mexico on Saturday night one week ago. Where he. had gone none of his associates at the hotel knew, though it was said he when he left the capital.
 Creditors of Ballard promptly noti- fled the police authorities and detect ives were advised to look for Ballard. Charges have been definitely prefer red against him in the courts. It is said that the amount of his debts here approximates SI5,oOO. It was reported at the hotel that he had
Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-28
FAMOMS ARIZONA CHARACTER
 IS DEAD
"ThySing the Silent, /" Noted Indian Fighter and Trader, Has Pretty Romance Before Last Call Comes to Him.

Theodore Thysing, one of the most famous characters on the Arizona des- ert, and known far and wide as Thy sing the silent, is dead. having passed aaway on Monday.
 A year ago last spring I set the brake of my wagon berore the door of ''Betahoochee,' the cabin under le 1 first cared for my horses that after the long journey oc nifty miles through the bad lands-' or Arizona they might be fit with the dawn for the arduous trip through the Painted Desert. They having been looked af- ter as they always are in ttAt land where a good horse is a mans best friend. we considered our own wants. ,"Old Tined" the trade, assisted by Ambo the ancient NavaJo. had already prepared for us the simple meal of the desert. After supper. with the full moon painting deep shadows upon the great rock. old Tined and I sat in the doorway and talked in whispers as all do in that land of mystery. .t was in an hour like this that the bat tie scared veteran of a hundred In- dian encounters occasionally betrayed when in the mood the true man be- hind the stern, military mask of the old calvalry seargent.
 Theodore Thysing, after having faithfully served Emperor William l, had crossed the seas and entered the Eth United States Cavalry in the early '10's. when the Comanches were on the war path. and when dead shot was at a premiumI When the fun of exchanging shot for shot ceased to enliven things garrison work became irksOme, Tined left the service and long lived among his former antagon- ists hunting and trapping. Finally he bought the stone and adobe cabin at the foot of the big red rock and opened there an Indian trading post and station for the rare traveller.
 This was all that waas known of Thysing the silent. In the moon-Iit night when the awe inspiring silence had enveIoped the desert, broken On- ly by the rustlings of the kangorOo
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had both enntered into the mellow af- ternoon of their days.
 The trim little ex-nospital nurse transformed all things and all people with her smiles. Having found hap piness herself, a supreme rulfllment of her youthful romance, she emanat- ed sunshine all about her, even d. mong the wild NavaJoes whom she adopted as her own. Through her great affection she kindled love in her new friends, but their coldness seemed strange to the warm-aearted little woman from the East. She set about improving the courtship of her pro- teges The young NavaSoes proved apt pupils and soon began 70 discontinue the long range horse back fiirtations of former days for more modern Caucasian methods. Often she sur prised her Indian cook warmly kissing the shepherd spouse behind the door of the kitchen. merrIiy laughing at the pale face squaw-s mods of approv- al and happy days had fallen upon the House of the Red RecK under the work of the gentle missionary of Eros.
 The sweet spirit of the little moth- er." as the Indians called her. prevad- ed everywhere; she became the good angel of the shepherds of Malapai in health and in sickness, sharing their joys and their sorrows. We voyagers on the ocean of sand all looked eager by forward to the hour when the smiles of the little lady of Betaho- ochee would greet us at the door in welcome. so well does all the world man was transformed by happiness.
 All this happened at the gateway of the Bad Lands" but yesterday.
 The geniI of the desert, Many Horses" the medicine man of Mala- pal. will tell you do not want the Navajoes to always smile, their dO- main is one of toll, their harvest the | tears of women. This is why ThysinG the Silent. transformed into Thysing the Happy. by his discovery of the hidden spring of joy, dIed suddenly Monday.
 The little mother" alone in the midst of the great waste of desert closed the eyes of her love as the sun kissed with his last ray the shadowy rock of Betahoochee.
 Stolid Navajo shepherds tenderly carried Thysing the Silent, wrapped in his old gray coat, and laid him to rest in the desert, building over him a great cairn of stones. and all night | they mournfully chanted his praises In the lonely cabin under the Red Rock the little mother" prayed alone with but the memory of a brief TO- nance wrapped away forever in the immensity of the Painted Desert, far from all her kin. alone among the primitive children of Ma1apai-aloEe with her sorrow.-HectOr Alline, in Los Angeles Examiner.
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rats frisking among the greasewood, the big owl on the rock, and the rest ful comfortable sound of horses con tentedly munching barley in the open corral, came to know Thysing the Silent The fearless Indian fighter gave snappy anecdotes of battles as trip hammer coins metal, bound by that reticence of speech engender- ed by the lonely life in the desert. Underneath. however, still lay the po- etic soul of the Saxon, numbed by thirty years of hardships and repres, sion, and silenced in that daily com munion with nature that Ieads one to feel deeply but express little. That spring night I discovered the scholar. the poet. as he enthusiastically quoted Schiller and Goethe and the rhythmic Virgil. In the morning he showed me the apple trees he had planted at the foot of BetahOOchee.
 Herein lies the mystery" said old Tined smilingly as we shook hands and my team bore me away across the undulating plains of Malapai.
 With ten hours of toiling through the sand, ones thoughts are concen- trated and little things become noun tains in the solitary retrospection of the desert traveller. Thysing the Si- lent had smiled. His old weather. beaten face had been illuminated by beam of supreme happiness. Why I asked myself this question thous' and times ere with the sun setting behind the mesas. drew up before the Navajo Rock House.
 Months passed, and again I found myself at the hospitable door of tho stone house at Betahoochee, but nc longer the military post Betahoochet of the years past, a feminine presence was felt everywhere. The smile Ot Thysing the silent was no longer 6 mystery. Schiller and Goethe had woven a garland of romance about the rude house and consecrated it tc Cupid.
 once upon a time the stern soldier had loved back in the States in the early '70's. and through all the long lonely years of solitude his heart had remained true and steaGrast. Writing does not come easy however to the wanderers of the desert. and Boston -ah Boston is very far indeed from the big Red Rock. one day a letter came to the veteran, and then the cabin was cleaned and polished as il or inspection. Then rne apple trees were planted. 50 that the desert might have a touch of New England he told me later.
 One September day q dainty little woman, accompanied Dy Il friend and parson. arrived at the stone house of BetahOochee, and the next day the Navajo shepherds and their squaws danced and had a great feast to eel ebrate the wedding of the stern old trader and the little lady from Boston The forbidding BeracnOOchee had suddenly been transformed into a shrine of love, a love probably all the more devoted because of the sol itude. and the fact that the lovers